[DGD] Diferences between telnet and binary connections

[pete at ana.sk]

> > 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.

You can also implement some other usefull telnet codes easily 
with adding few lines of code to dgd sorces, i personaly find 
negotiate-about-window-size very good. Btw, are there plans to do 
more telnet codes into stock dgd? At east naws and maybe non-
linemode operations would be good.

Pete

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