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Dialog on Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Public-Access Computer Systems For)
Wed Jul 1 12:11:56 1992
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1992 11:07:07 CDT
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2 Messages, 70 Lines
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From: dmahone@hal.unm.edu (Dan Mahoney)
Subject: dialog internet backspaces
Dialog on the Internet and backspaces.
I called Dialog the other day and asked about backspaces.
They mentioned that I have to be in line mode in telnet.
This is done, after one connects and then one does a
control right bracket to see the telnet prompt.
Then one issues the command
telnet> mode line
and all is well.
BUT,, if you have your output being redirected to a file via
the tee command,,this will NOT work.
ie. telnet dialog.com | tee output.file
tee doesn't let you give the control right bracket.
WHAT YOU COULD DO IS THIS.....
begin your session with script (output is called typescript)
for example
YOUR_PROMPT% script
% telnet dialog.com
after connecting do the control right bracket
see the telnet prompt
type mode line
do the search
logoff
% HIT CONTROL D TO TERMINATE SCRIPT program
YOUR_PROMPT%
output file is called typescript, if you want to get rid of the
control M's at the end of each line try this.
YOUR_PROMPT% tr -d '\015' < typescript > typescript.clean
or
vi typescript
then do an escape colon %!tr -d '\015'
dan
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From: dmahone@hal.unm.edu (Dan Mahoney)
Subject: dialog backspaces internet
Dialog, Internet, Backspaces....
I was mentioning earlier that if one does the following command
telnet dialog.com | tee output.file
and then tries to do a telnet escape (^]) to set the mode to mode line
after arriving at Dialog that problems would arise because the
tee program would not let one see the telnet prompt.
Well, I was DEAD WRONG, the telnet prompt is there, you just don't
see it.(till later)
So if you are using tee to redirect the output to a file,
for your travels to Dialog, type the following after connecting to Dialog
^](control right bracket)mode line (followed by a return)
Even though you will not see the telnet prompt
telnet will go into line mode, and things will be hunky-dori
dan
