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... canonical terminal.
This eliminates the need for "server" and "user" hosts to keep
information about the characteristics of each other's terminals and
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... terminals and
terminal handling conventions. All hosts, both user and server, map
their local device characteristics and conventions so as to appear to
be dealing with an NVT ...
... similar mapping by the other party. The NVT is intended to strike a
balance between being overly restricted (not providing hosts a rich
enough vocabulary for mapping into their local character sets), and
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... physical terminal
is normally attached, and the "server" host is the host which is
normally providing some service ...
... terminal
is normally attached, and the "server" host is the host which is
normally providing some service. As an alternate point of view,
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... terminal-to-terminal or process-to-process
communications, the "user" host is the host which initiated the
communication.
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... terminal or process-to-process
communications, the "user" host is the host which initiated the
communication.
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2. The principle of negotiated options takes cognizance of the fact
that many hosts will wish to provide additional services over and
above those available within an NVT ...
... effect. (It should be noted that some time will elapse between
the transmission of a request and the receipt of an
acknowledgment, which may be negative. Thus, a host may wish to
buffer data, after requesting an option, until it learns whether
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... connection in a state
which both ends can handle. Thus, all hosts may implement their
TELNET processes to be totally unaware of options that are not
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... network (although options exist to enable a "remote" echoing mode of
operation, no host is required to implement this option). The code
set is seven-bit USASCII in an eight-bit ...
... 1) Insofar as the availability of local buffer space permits,
data should be accumulated in the host where it is generated
until a complete line of data is ready for transmission, or
until some locally-defined explicit signal to transmit occurs.
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The motivation for this rule is the high cost, to some hosts,
of processing network input interrupts, coupled with the
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... be sent from a terminal at the end of each line, since server
hosts do not normally require a special signal (in addition to
end-of-line or other locally-defined characters) in order to
commence processing. Rather, the TELNET ...
... commence processing. Rather, the TELNET GA is designed to help
a user's local host operate a physically half duplex terminal
which has a "lockable" keyboard such as the IBM 2741. A
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... terminal-to-terminal communication, GAs may be required in
neither, one, or both directions. If a host plans to support
terminal-to-terminal ...
... terminal-to-terminal communication it is suggested that the host
provide the user with a means of manually signaling that it is
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... buffers external to the system (in
the network and the user's local host) which should be cleared;
the appropriate way to do this is to transmit the "Synch"
signal (described below) to the user system.
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... flow control mechanisms may
cause such a signal to be buffered elsewhere, for example in the
user's host.
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... When used for remote user access to service hosts (i.e., remote
terminal access) this protocol is assigned server port ...