On 30 January 1998, Alan Barrett proclaimed:
> > Exim, OTOH, *is* supposed to be 8-bit clean. That is weird. If you type
> > in more data after the ^C it correctly appears in the received message,
> > but the ^C gets turned into ff f4 ff fd 06 on this Solaris box.
>
> Is there a telnet client between you and exim? The "ff f4"
> corresponds to telnet's <IAC> <IP> (where "IP" stands for "Interrupt
> Process", and IAC is an escape that means the next byte is special).
> The "ff fd 06" corresponds to <IAC> <DO> <Timing Mark>.
Yes, that is definitely the case. I (not so cleverly as it turns out)
thought that it wouldn't interfere, as I wasn't telnetting to port 23.
Silly me. However, it does still raise the 8 bittyness question.
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Dom Mitchell -- Demon Internet Ltd.
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