Re: connection_options() inconsistency

• Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 19:56:58 PDT
• From:
  phantom@baymoo.sfsu.edu (Richard Connamacher)
• Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

At 7:36 PM 5/9/96, David Morris wrote:
>At 09:22 PM 5/9/96 -0500, phantom wrote:
>>[just freshly connected to my character]
>>;connection_options(player)
>>=> {{"binary", 0}, {"flush-command", ".flush"}, {"hold-input", 0},
>>{"client-echo", 0}}
>>;set_connection_option(player, "client-echo", 0)
>>=> 0
>>
>>I don't understand that.
>> [snip]
>>
>>Shouldn't the client-echo connection option be 1 by default?
>>
>
>No, read the changelog (1.7.9alpha1) and the latest manual...
>
>"client-echo" -- (NP_TCP configurations only) sends the Telnet protocol
>     WON'T ECHO or WILL ECHO commands (depending on whether VALUE is
>     true or false, respectively)...
>
>So 1 means WON'T ECHO and 0 means WILL ECHO

Hmm.  looks like the changelog has an error, because in practice 1 is WILL
ECHO and 0 is WON'T ECHO.

Phantom

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