[En-Nut-Discussion] Cooked text mode for socket streams

Philipp Burch phip at hb9etc.ch
Fri Sep 27 21:26:38 CEST 2013


Hi Nathan!

On 09/27/2013 02:53 PM, Nathan Moore wrote:
> I'm pretty sure that there is a setting in Putty for this.  Most serial
> console emulators and telnet type programs, of which Putty is both,
> have this setting because it's been a common issue since the 70s.  This
> setting may even be per setting name (host) in Putty.
> _______________________________________________

It has, that's what I wrote at the end of my last post:


>>
>> For a quick solution, you may check your client capabilities. Not sure
>> about Putty, but the command line Telnet typically allows to set a
>> specific option for EOL-translation.
>
> Yep, just checked this. Putty has a setting named "Implicit CR in every LF", which does exactly this. It's not particularly nice, but should be ok for a maintenance-only interface.


Regards,
Philipp


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