Subject: Re: faulty termcap/ncsa telnet?
To: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
From: Daniel Hagerty <hag@ai.mit.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/04/1998 21:59:37
> From: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
> Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 19:21:27 +0100
>
>
> I've always seen the problem with NCSA Telnet (2.5, 2.6, 2.7bX, what have
> you). About 50-70% of the session windows that come up have the ^C problem,
> and those that have it have another one, too: <tab> doesn't do filename
> completion anymore in tcsh - you have to fall back to <esc> <esc>, instead.
FYI; this is a known bug in NCSA telnet's line mode handling code.
As I recall, disable line mode for sessions which show the control-c
problem and it'll go away.