Subj : Windows Telnet...
To : KenDB3
From : mark lewis
Date : Wed Nov 05 2014 02:38 pm
On Wed, 05 Nov 2014, KenDB3 wrote to Digital Man:
> > Now, since then Ihave tried it on your BBS and it works (except
> > I can't see what I have typed into the prompt, but the text is
> > certainly there because it works when I hit enter). Also, my own
> > Telgate on my BBS is working just the same as it is on yours. So,
> > whatever was going on stopped, and it was probably on Weather
> > Underground's end.
>
> You can enable local echo with the telgate TG_ECHO option.
K> Thanks digital man! Is that done right on the command line that
K> calls the telgate, or is that in a config file somewhere?
max and i were playing with this earlier today after she ran her CVS update
scriptand loaded the latest synchronet code... we ended up copying the
telgate.js script to weathergate.js and editing it to includeTG_LINEMODE,
TG_ECHO, and TG_CRLF on the options like after the TG_PASSTHRU option... the
pause line was commented out so that the script just displayed the telgate
CTRL-] note and then displayed that it was connecting to that wunderground
host...
itseems that the key factors were the TG_LINEMODE and TG_CRLF options... those
were discovered as being needed when we tried a straight telnet directly to
that host from linux... nothing worked until we toggled "mode line" and then we
had to hit a key+enter... so we tried "mode crlf" as well and then just hitting
