Re: edit control character negotiation?

[Jordan Brown <[e-mail]>]

> I believe that the intent of the Telnet authors in 1974 (I was present
> at most of the meetings) was this:  if a client has a local convention
> for erase line and erase character, it should either implement them
> locally, or translate the characters into the corresponding Telnet
> escape sequences.  So, no negotiation was thought to be logically
> necessary.

An excellent point, and one I'd forgotten.  I think I'll teach my telnet
client to do it and see how many servers it works on...