James Hofmeister writes:

> Re: Telnet patches PTDFDT3a 6.0 & PTDFDT4a 6.5
>
>  The functionality mentioned earlier by Wirt Atmar and Jeff Bandle
concerning
>  Telnet local echo option 45
>  and XON/XOFF flow control are now present in the above noted Beta Test
>  patches.
>
>  You are able to request these BETA TEST patches from the HP-RC by asking
for
>  PTDFDT3a 6.0 or
>  PTDFDT4a  6.5, but please reference SR 4701-422436 since the RC may not
give
>  out Beta patches
>  with out a SR.

Let me add just a few comments to what James has already said. These new
patches fix a number of problems, some of which are associated only with
"advanced telnet" and some of which affect every telnet user.

Some of the corrections to the HP3000's telnet behavior that I know of are
these:

  o Persistent ghost sessions due to abnormal telnet termination.
        Previous versions of the telnet client on the HP3000
        would occasionally leave "ghost" sessions on the
        list of active sessions. This version corrects that.

  o Frequent timeouts when long-distance (continental scale) telnetting.
        This new version is very robust when telnetting over long
        distances. I can maintain a connection to Africa for days
        now.

  o Display of passwords when in Advanced Telnet mode.
        At the moment, this correction only affects QCTerm,
        although as the other terminal emulator manufacturers
        adopt advanced telnet, it will become of concern to
        everyone.

  o Double-echoing of typed text when in Advanced mode.
        Again, this is, at the moment, only of concern to
        QCTerm users.

  o XON/XOFF flow control is now present in the HP3000's telnet.
         This affects everyone.

  o Eliminates suppression of LF in CRLF pair.
         This affects everyone who uses a product such
         as Qedit over a telnet connection. While Reflection
         solved the problem as a workaround, and Robelle
         also put a workaround in Qedit, the initial problem
         is now corrected. You will no longer get the (paraphrased)
         message, "Missing LF. Suspected bad transfer."

Wirt Atmar