James Hoffmeister wrote me privately:

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"We have not seen any QCTerm customers contact the Response Center
requesting the beta patches with the TELNET SUPPRESS LOCAL ECHO
OPTION & XON/XOFF FLOW CONTROL feature.

"If you find anyone who needs this patch, please have them
contact the RC and request the below patches for SR 4701-422436.

   PTDGDC7 for C.60.00 is Beta Test
   PTDGDK4 for C.65.00 is Beta Test (updated 4/17/02)
   PTDGDK6 for C.70.00 is Beta Test (updated 5/20/02)

"We were hoping to include this in MPE/iX 7.5, but we did not get
sufficient customers to test, so I am expecting it will be
included in the first beta 7.5 patch."

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I didn't realize that getting a sufficient number of people to request these
tapes would determine when advanced telnet gets into MPE. If I had, I would
have mentioned this much earlier (and I would have stopped giving this patch
out myself).

If you are currently a user of QCTerm or you would like to get the
Cntl+S/Cntl+Q Xon/Xoff feature into MPE's telnet, please request the patch,
even if you're only mildly interested. These patches are probably the most
thoroughly tested patches in the history of MPE, thus I guarantee that
they'll work. In fact, I'm so sure about their validity and safety that I'll
buy anyone who finds an error a year's worth of enchiladas.

The advanced telnet feature that appears in these patches makes an enormous
amount of difference if you're telnetting over any distance at all (in fact,
it's like night and day). But it also makes a difference if your HP3000 is
only a few feet away. Your telnet connection becomes silky smooth.

But wait. There's more! I believe that this is the first telnet patch that
contains the Xon/Xoff flow-control behavior that you've always expected to be
there with serial or NS/VT connections. With this patch, it's finally in
telnet as well.

So call now. This is a limited-time offer. You only have minutes to act.
Operators are standing by.

Wirt Atmar

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