Subject: 5250 Telnet Enhancements Draft

From: "Dave Close" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 13:21:41 +0000

Jeffrey,

I can sort of understand your reasoning, but it does not actually
hold true in the Draft !  On page 15, you have an example for a
Printer, but in this you 1) show IAC DO TERMINAL-TYPE before IAC DO
NEW-ENVIRON and 2) have the TelnetClient reply with IAC WILL
NEW-ENVIRON after IAC WILL EOR !?

My only point was that, as a general rule in Telnet negotiations,
the Client should (or maybe MUST ?) reply to IAC..... requests from
the Server in the order in which they are made !?
i.e.:-
IAC DO NEW-ENVIRON
IAC DO TERMINAL-TYPE   -->
                                  IAC WILL NEW-ENVIRON
                          <--   IAC WILL TERMINAL-TYPE
IAC SB TERMINAL-TYPE SEND
IAC SE                                     -->
                                  IAC SB TERMINAL-TYPE IS
                          <--     IBM-5555-C01 IAC SE
IAC SB NEW-ENVIRON SEND
   VAR IAC SE                        -->
                                  IAC SB NEW-ENVIRON IS
                                    VAR "USER" VALUE "JONES"
                                    VAR "DEVNAME" VALUE "MYDEVICE07"
IAC SE IAC DO EOR           -->
                          <--   IAC WILL EOR

Cheers
Dave Close
Pericom Software PLC
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