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From: johnam@dsusmail.dsus.datastorm.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: telnetd CR-LF translations
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 94 13:18:11 PST
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In article <3c2g2c$me@ici-paris.ensta.fr>, bouyer@ensta.fr says...
>I had the same kind of problem when i was doing a telnet from a sun to a NetBSD
>host. Starting telnetd whith the -k option on the NetBSD box solved the problem
>for me. (in inetd.conf, change:
>telnet          stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/libexec/telnetd    telnetd
>to:
>telnet          stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/libexec/telnetd    telnetd -k

I tried this under NetBSD 0.9 and kept getting an error that -k isn't a valid option
for telnetd.  Am I to assume that this option was added in latter revision of BSD?
If so the FAQ (when this is added) should reflect this.  Also, does BSDI support
this option?

John A. Maier
(johnam@dsusmail.dsus.datastorm.com)