Infrastructure Software

Hi,

I am trying to figure out how to disable the local echo functionality in the Solaris telnet client. If I use the Solaris telnet client to connect to a server I wrote, every character I type is displayed twice, once by the telnet client and once by the server. I know this to be the case because when I get to the password entry part, one of the characters dislay is the character I typed, the other is an X. The X comes from my server in place of the password character, the other is being displayed by the telnet client.

I have tried everything that I can think of (man page, on-line help for the telnet client, etc.). I even tried modifying the server to send an IAC WILL ECHO to the client when it connects. This does not work because the telnet client sends so many other Telnet protocol commands, which my server simply echoes back because it is not Telnet-protocol savvy, that the client ends up turning local-echo back on.

Is there some way of setting up the client so that it will not do all of the telent negotiation with the server?

By the way, none of these problems occur if we use the NT telnet client in place of the Solaris telnet client (e.g. connect from an NT instead of from a Solaris box).

Thanks in advance,

Raymond Hendrey