Just a guess, but it seems regular telnet supports line mode with the
command "mode line"

>From the telnet man page : mode Type    Specifies the current input
mode. When the Type variable has a value of line, the mode is
line-by-line. When the Type variable has a value of character, the mode
is character-at-a-time. Permission is requested from the remote host
before entering the requested mode, and if the remote host supports it,
the new mode is entered. 


I just did a test against a "nc -l -p 8888" listener using "telnet
localhost 8888". Changing from "mode char" to "mode line" (after Ctrl-]
the telnet session definitely seems to change the line discipline ( I
think that is the term)


Regards, Martin

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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Peter Hardy
Sent: Tuesday, 7 March 2006 3:20 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [SLUG] Line-oriented telnet clients?

My second wacky request for the day!

I'm logged in to a device on the far end of a satellite link, so latency
is on the order of a couple of seconds. Due to vagaries that I haven't
yet sorted out, the regular telnet client that Ubuntu ships in the
telnet package doesn't like talking to these devices, so I usually use
putty, which also has handy logging features.

But the latency here is a real drag. So. Are there any good telnet
clients around that are line-buffered? I want to be able to type a line
and hit enter to send the whole thing over the wire at once, rather than
individual characters.

--
Pete

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