TELNET Symbiont Changed Between VMS Versions?

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

Robert,

is your problem now solved ?

Jed,

Where is this 3rd bit documented ? Where are the release notes ? Starting from which tcp version ?

Wim

[Robert Atkinson]

We were working on it with our support company, when it suddenly rectified itself. As yet, I don't know why!

I'm waiting for it to come back, so I can pick the problem up again.

Rob.

[Jeremy Stubbs]

Wim,

The 3rd bit received very brief documentation in the UCX 4.2 ECO 3 release notes. One day it might make the Management Guide ? ;0)

Have to say, I thought it wasn't introduced until TCPIP (rather than UCX), but looks like I'm wrong (not the first time)

Jed

[Jeff Muehlbauer_1]

Robert,

I've had the same problem for years (this is going way back to VMS 5.5 and UCX) and have just written it off as not being repair-able. Were you able to solve the problem with the TCPIP$TELNETSYM_SUPPRESS_FORMFEEDS set to 42? It doesn't work for me.

Right now, I'm doing a lot more with the HP printer. I'm not just sending escape sequences to turn on/off features of the printer, I'm also sending macros (like pre-printed forms) which get overlaid on the printout as if being printed on a pre-printed form.

The issue of the form feed before the printout is a real pain; I'm interested in finding out if you were able to get it fixed.

Thanks

[Robert Atkinson]

I've not seen this problem again, so rather bemused by where it came from.

For reference, we're still using these logicals :-

ALPHA_ROB$ sh log *telnet*

"OPENVMS$TELNET" = "SYS$SYSTEM:TCPIP$TELNET.EXE"
"TCPIP$TELNETSYM_IDLE_TIMEOUT" = "0 00:00:10.00"
"TCPIP$TELNETSYM_RETRY_INTERVAL" = "0 00:00:30.00"
"TCPIP$TELNETSYM_SUPPRESS_FORMFEEDS" = "34"
"TCPIP$TELNET_NO_REM_ID" = "TRUE"

Rob.