Hi Damian,

Thanks for the clear and concise patch information.

I hope the new patches will be available for beta before they go GR as
we have had some problems that we believe to be related to the Advanced
Telnet enhancements. In particular, passwords being echoed to the screen
on standard Telnet connections.

Regards

Mark

In article <[log in to unmask]>, Damian Coffey
<[log in to unmask]> writes
>Hi Wirt,
>
>There have been genuine cases of "Flying B" data loss, but this was not
>related to the Advanced Telnet enhancements, in fact was fixed well
>before the enhancement was first introduced.  Nevertheless, when the
>alarm was raised about the potential for data loss with Advanced Telnet,
>we quickly took the option of removing this from the patch line until
>the issue could be investigated.
>
>As it turns out, it does appear that this alarm was a false alarm, so we
>are able to re-introduce the enhancement.  However, this hasn't happened
>yet.
>
>On 6.0, the enhancement was introduced with PTDFDT3(A) "I" patch.
>Was removed with PTDFDW9(A) "J" patch, and not included with the
>subsequent "K" and "L" patches, PTDFDY5(A) and PTDGD17(A).
>
>On 6.5, it was introduced with PTDFDT4(A) "C" patch.
>Was removed with PTDFDX0(A) "D" patch, and not included with the
>subsequent "E" patch, PTDGD18(A).
>
>On 7.0, it was introduced with the base release of 7.0, BUT was removed
>with the only 7.0 patch released so far, PTDGD64(A).
>
>The enhancement is slated to be re-introduced with the next PTD patches
>for each release.  I don't yet have patch id's available for these
>patches, nor, unfortunately, can I supply an expected release date.
>
>Either James or I will notify the list when these patches become
>available.
>
>Cheers,
>Damian Coffey,
>HP Australia.
>
>
>Wirt Atmar wrote:
>>
>> Ordinarily, I would ask these kinds of questions of people at HP directly,
>> but everyone I normally talk to seems to be out of the office and on vacation.
>>
>> My question is: what is the current status of the "advanced telnet" patches
>> for MPE/iX 6.0 and 6.5? There were named patches for these two operating
>...

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