Newbie telnet question re: Mac OS X terminal

[vhuang]

This isn't Tivo specific but I hope someone knows this off the top of their head.

When I telnet into Tivo from Mac OS X, every character I type is echoed back to me so that they show up once when I type them and once when the tivo sends them back. Everything works if I make no typos.

Likewise I can paste commands into the terminal and they execute fine.

Is there a command that I can issue to stop this behavior. I can't see anything in my terminal preferences that looks like it could control this. My choices of emulation are: xterm, xterm color, vt52, vt100, vt102, ansi, dtterm, rxvt.

Thanks for the off topic reply

[Narf54321]

Most unix systems can reliabily work with VT100 or VT102 emulation. But the issue you describe about repeated letters means you have 'local echo' turned on somewhere.

Unfortunately, I don't have OSX (my Mac experience stopped somewhere back at System 7.5) so I can't help much. You can try this http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25375 and see if it helps your situation.

[Gunnyman]

telnet -K solves the problem

[Narf54321]

You could also try just running the telnet command and setting the options before connecting to your tivo. [Since this is NOT collection from a Mac, your milage may vary]

% telnet
telnet > display <<<--- You may also try mode line
Escape Character is 'CTRL+]'
WILL AUTH (NTLM Authentication)
LOCAL_ECHO on
Sending both CR & LF
WILL TERM TYPE

Preferred Term Type is ANSI


telnet > open my.tivo.ip.addess

Essentially see what you can set for your telnet client.

[vhuang]

Excellent. telnet -K did the trick.