Terminal information from telnetd?

[Salvatore Saieva]

I'm trying to login to a VAX/Ultrix system using Telnet (TCP/IP) running
on a DCA data switch. I can connect to Ultrix and get a login
prompt, but Ultrix is neither sending out nor respecting
carriage returns. It only understands line feeds. (IE: I have
to enter a ^J as a record terminator after typing my login
and password. Also, Ultrix isn't sending out ^M at the end
of records. As a result,
                        records are printed to the
                                                   screen like this.)
After talking to some people and reading man pages for telnetd,
telnet, termcap, gettytab, etc., I believe the problem is that
the DCA data swith doesn't know anything about terminals, so
telnetd has no term info to give to the created login process.
Although, by the time I'm running csh everything is fine because
by then the terminal type is defined properly.
If this all sounds possible/true, the question all this is
building up to is: How do you change or specify the login info
that telnetd is passing to login? Does someone have a modified
telnetd (source) that has a work around this problem?
I should also say that I have
experienced the same problems when connecting to a NeXT system
through the DCA gear.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Please send direct replies. I'll be
happy to submit a followup reply if there is interest.

Sal.
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