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- NWG/RFC 749 BSG 26-Sep-78 13:13 45499
- Network Working Group Bernard Greenberg
- Request for Comments 749 MIT-Multics
- NIC 45499 18 September 1978
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- Telnet SUPDUP-OUTPUT Option
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- 1. Command name and code.
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- SUPDUP-OUTPUT 22
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- 2. Command meanings.
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- IAC WILL SUPDUP-OUTPUT
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- The sender of this command REQUESTS permission to transmit
- SUPDUP-OUTPUT format messages over the TELNET connection.
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- IAC WON'T SUPDUP-OUTPUT
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- The sender of this command STATES that he will no longer send
- SUPDUP-OUTPUT format messages over the TELNET connection.
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- IAC DO SUPDUP-OUTPUT
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- The sender of this command grants the receiver permission to send
- SUPDUP-OUTPUT format messages over the TELNET connection.
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- IAC DON'T SUPDUP-OUTPUT
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- The sender of this command DEMANDS that the receiver not send
- SUPDUP-OUTPUT format messages over the TELNET connection.
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- IAC SB SUPDUP-OUTPUT 1 <terminal-parameters> IAC SE
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- The sender of this command (which must be the TELNET user process) is
- supplying information describing the capabilities of the user
- process' terminal.
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- IAC SB SUPDUP-OUTPUT 2 n TD1 TD2 .. TDn SCx SCy IAC SE
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- The sender of this command, which must be the TELNET server process,
- is sending explicit screen control information to be carried out by
- the user TELNET process.
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- 3. Default.
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- WON'T SUPDUP-OUTPUT
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- DON'T SUPDUP-OUTPUT
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- i.e., the SUPDUP-OUTPUT format messages may not be transmitted.
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- Greenberg [page 1]
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- 4. Motivation for the option.
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- The SUPDUP-OUTPUT protocol provides a means to access the virtual
- display support provided by the SUPDUP protocol (see RFC 734) within
- the context of a standard TELNET connection. This allows occasional
- display-oriented programs at non-display-oriented servers to take
- advantage of the standardized display support provided by SUPDUP.
- This cannot be done with the standard SUPDUP protocol or the TELNET
- SUPDUP option (RFC 736), for they both require that all communication
- after the negotiation to use SUPDUP has been completed proceed
- according to the protocol of RFC 734. This places upon the server
- total responsibility for screen management for the duration of the
- connection, which, by hypothesis, the non-display oriented server is
- not willing to accept.
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- User TELNET programs at display-oriented user hosts provide local
- screen management by mapping the NVT commands of TELNET into local
- screen management commands; often, this involves scrolling,
- end-of-page processing, line clearing etc. The SUPDUP-OUTPUT option
- allows a display-oriented application program at the server side to
- take over screen management explicitly, via the SUPDUP display
- control repertoire. TELNET remains in effect throughout. The IAC IP
- and other TELNET commands are still valid.
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- By means of the SUPDUP-OUTPUT option, display-oriented programs can
- run on the server host, and control the user host's screen
- explicitly. The user TELNET process sends a description of the user
- terminal (as specified in RFC 734) to the server TELNET process as a
- subnegiotiation block when the SUPDUP-OUTPUT negotiation has been
- successfully completed. The server TELNET process sends explicit
- screen control commands via subnegotiation blocks to the user TELNET
- process.
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- 5. Description of the option.
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- The SUPDUP-OUTPUT protocol may only be initiated by the server TELNET
- process. A server TELNET process wishing to take advantage of the
- SUPDUP-OUTPUT protocol will initiate a negotiation for it by sending
- IAC WILL SUPDUP-OUTPUT. The user TELNET process must accept or
- refuse the offer by sending IAC DO SUPDUP-OUTPUT or IAC DON'T
- SUPDUP-OUTPUT.
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- If the user TELNET process agrees to support the SUPDUP-OUTPUT
- option, it must follow the sending of IAC DO SUPDUP-OUTPUT
- immediately with a description of the user's terminal. This
- information is described in RFC 734 as the "terminal parameters." It
- is to be sent as a series of six-bit bytes, one byte per eight-bit
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- Greenberg [page 2]
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- TELNET data byte. These words may or may not contain the optional
- line speed and graphics capabilities parameters described by RFC 747;
- the first six bytes specify the count of 36-bit words to follow as
- described by RFC 734.
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- The terminal parameter block will be sent as a subnegotiation of the
- SUPDUP-OUTPUT option:
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- IAC SB SUPDUP-OUTPUT 1 byte1 byte2 ... byten IAC SE
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- The byte of "1" is a command code, for compatibility with future
- extensions. Upon receipt of the terminal parameter block from the
- user TELNET process, the server TELNET process may send SUPDUP-OUTPUT
- blocks as described below.
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- The server TELNET process can specify explicit control of the user
- host's screen by the sending of subnegotiation blocks of the
- SUPDUP-OUTPUT option. The format of such a block, as seen in
- eight-bit TELNET data bytes, is:
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- IAC SB SUPDUP-OUTPUT 2 N TD1 TD2 TD3 ... TDn SCx SCy IAC SE
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- The byte of "2" is a command code, for compatibility with future
- extensions. The TDm bytes are the "%TDCODEs" and printing characters
- of SUPDUP output of RFC 734. N is a byte containing a count of the
- number of TDm's in this transmission. N may be zero, and may not be
- greater than 254 (decimal). SCx and SCy are two bytes specifying the
- anticipated horizontal and vertical (respectively) coordinates of the
- cursor of the user host's screen after the latter has interpreted all
- the %TDCODEs in this transmission.
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- The motivation for the SCx SCy screen position specification is to
- allow hosts running the ITS operating system, which will transmit the
- TDCODEs directly into the local output system, to assert the "main
- program level" screen position without any interpretation of the
- transmitted TDCODE sequence by the user TELNET program.
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- The user TELNET process must manage the position of the local cursor
- with respect to standard TELNET NVT commands and output, and SUPDUP
- OUTPUT transmissions. The user TELNET process may assume that the
- server TELNET process is managing both NVT and SUPDUP-OUTPUT output
- in an integrated way.
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- The SUPDUP-OUTPUT option makes no statement about how input is sent;
- this may be negotiated via other options. By default, NVT input will
- be used. The user-to-server screen management commands of RFC 734
- are NOT implicitly handled by IAC WILL SUPDUP-OUTPUT.
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- Greenberg [page 3]
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- In the absence of the transmission of SUPDUP-OUTPUT subnegotiation
- blocks, a TELNET connection operating with the SUPDUP-OUTPUT option
- in effect is indistinguishable from a normal TELNET connection. Thus
- IAC WON'T SUPDUP-OUTPUT is highly optional, and if received by the
- user TELNET process, should only be used to cause a diagnostic if
- SUPDUP-OUTPUT subnegotiation blocks are subsequently received. If
- received, the user TELNET process should respond with IAC DON'T
- SUPDUP OUTPUT.
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- Because of the optional nature of IAC WON'T SUPDUP-OUTPUT, the user
- TELNET process should be prepared to send the terminal parameter
- subnegotiation block each time IAC WILL SUPDUP-OUTPUT is received,
- i.e., even if the user TELNET process believes SUPDUP-OUTPUT to be in
- effect.
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- The %TDORS (output reset) code may not be sent in a SUPDUP-OUTPUT
- transmission. The user TELNET program may assume that no byte in a
- subnegotiation block will be 255 (decimal).
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- No multi-byte TDCODE sequence (e.g., %TDMOV, %TDILP) may be split
- across SUPDUP-OUTPUT subnegotiation blocks.
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- References:
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- Crispin, Mark:
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- "SUPDUP Display Protocol", RFC 734, 7 October 1977, NIC 44213.
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- Crispin, Mark:
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- "TELNET SUPDUP Option", RFC 736, 31 October 1977, NIC 44213.
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- Crispin, Mark:
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- "Recent Extensions to the SUPDUP Protocol", RFC 747, 21 March
- 1978, NIC 44015.
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- Greenberg [page 4]