[DGD] Diferences between telnet and binary connections

[Erwin Harte]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 05:13:42AM +0100, Arnau Rossell? Castell? wrote:
> Hello to everybody.
> 
> I've been meddling with DGD for some time and getting
> myself familiar with it while having some fun, and i
> have to say it's an impressive piece of code, although
> the (lack of)documentation makes learning it a bit of
> try and error.
> 
> Well my question was about the binary and telnet connec-
> tion types. What are exactly the differences between
> them?
> I know that the telnet link filters all below ascii
> 32, and i suppose it will also do some telnet "things",
> but haven't seen anywhere wich ones does it do. Any help
> will be appreciated. :)

I'd say the most important bit (to me) is that it handles the turning
on/off of echoing back of the input, so that your client knows not to
show your input when you are on the mud-side of things entering a
password or something else that you don't want visible to others on
your screen.

Erwin.
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Erwin Harte <harte at xs4all.nl>
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