[Dxspider-support] Enter (to log in) doesn't work but CTRL-Enter does!

Dirk Koopman djk at tobit.co.uk
Fri Oct 7 09:33:36 BST 2005


On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 19:58 -0400, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> User's can't log into my node (dxc.ad1c.us) using certain Telnet 
> clients.  I tried myself (from a host outside my LAN that runs a 
> flavor of BSD) and I found that if I type Enter, I get a ^M at the 
> end of my call (and no login), but if I type CTRL-Enter, then I can 
> log in normally.  Locally, Microsoft telnet client "does the right thing".
> 
> I'm running the latest code and using ActiveState Perl on Windows.
> 
> Anyone heard of this problem, or know a cure?
> 

Have a look at the properties. I suspect it has some strange mapping for
the enter key. 

Dirk




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