>Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 19:23:31 -0700 >To: Maxime Levesque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: Tim O'Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: need a good telnet client for emacs - "PUTTY" >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >At 08:52 PM 8/27/00, you wrote: > >> I was trying it (Putty) with some obscure win32 telnet server, >>and it wasn't working that well, but I suspect the telnet server >>to be responsible, or maybe the settings, because putty looked >>pretty slick... >> >> What server would be a good match for putty ? > > >All I can tell you is that is works with any RFC-compliant >server I've ever used it with, which is pretty-much exclusively >to be found naturally occurring on any machine running unix. >Telnet is a very old (the first RFC draft of telnet dates back to >1971), and stable protocol. If your server doesn't work well >with putty blame the server manufacturer, or Microsoft. Here is the >spec (warning, this is pretty dry reading): >http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/htbin/rfc/rfc764.html >If your server doesn't conform to this spec and any of its updates, >then you probably shouldn't use it. That spec dates back to 1980. >Like I said, the telnet protocol goes back to 1971. Bill Gates must >have been in grade school then. Don't count on any Windows-based >telnet server being very compliant.
