telnet and rainmaker

[Janina Sajka]

Jim, and Listers:

I'm getting a bit more concerned to figure this out. One scenario buzzing 
around in my head that might explain this would even potentially be 
illegal under U.S. telecomm law. So, Jim, I've forwarded my reply back to 
the list, even though you thought it might just muddy things up there.

I think we need to find outexactly what's going on here. It troubles me, 
for example, that the same installation could yield such different 
results. I'd like to know, for example, whether exactly the same data is 
being sent in each case. In other words, is it a terminal or a terminfo 
kind of issue? Or, is the network responding differently because it is 
impeding, or dropping some chars? If the latter, that could violate 
Section 201 of the 1996 Telecomm Act which requires that network 
transmission not break accessibility features.
 On Fri, 8 Mar 2002 
jwantz at hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov wrote:

> Hi Janina,
> I really didn't want to muddy the waters on the speakup list--but I 
> thought you might find this interesting.  When I telnet from this machine 
> here at work to wunderground.rainmaker.com I get a strange startup screen 
> with some reference to a null character.  When I hit return I get the 
> regular menus and I can select cities fine but I am unable to retrieve any 
> data.  Control-j and control-m don't matter.  It looks exactly like what 
> has been described by others.  However when telneting from my Linux 
> machine at home, everything works like it should.They are both rh 7.2 and 
> the telnet clients should be the same.  Any ideas?
> 
>      Jim
> 
> 

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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
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