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diff --git a/doc/rfc/rfc698.txt b/doc/rfc/rfc698.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e600cf8 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/rfc/rfc698.txt @@ -0,0 +1,221 @@ +Request for Comments: 698 Jul 1975 +NIC #32964 + + + + TELNET EXTENDED ASCII OPTION + + +1. Command Name and Code. + +EXTEND-ASCII 17 + +2. Command Meanings. + +IAC WILL EXTEND-ASCII + +The sender of this command requests Permission to begin +transmitting, or confirms that it may now begin transmitting +extended ASCII, where additional 'control' bits are added to +normal ASCII, which are treated sPecially by certain programs on +the host computer. + +IAC WON'T EXTEND-ASCII + +If the connection is already being operated in extended ASCII +mode, the sender of this command demands that the receiver begin +transmitting data characters in standard NVT ASCII. If the +connection is not already being operated in extended ASCII mode, +The sender of this command refuses to begin transmitting extended +ASCII. + +IAC DO EXTEND-ASCII + +The sender of this command requests that the receiver begin +transmitting,or confirms that the receiver of this command is +allowed to begin transmitting extended ASCII. + +IAC DON'T EXTEND-ASCII + +The sender of this command demands that the receiver of this +command stop or not start transmitting data in extended ASCII +mode. + +IAC SB EXTASC + +<high order bits (bits 15-8)><low order bits (bits 7-0)> IAC SE + +This command transmits an extended ASCII character in the form of +two 8-bit bytes. Each 8-bit byte contains 8 data bits. + + + + + + + -1- + +TELNET EXTENDED ASCII OPTION +RFC 698, NIC 32964 (July 23 1975) + + + +3. Default + +DON'T EXTEND-ASCII + +WON'T EXTEND-ASCII + +i.e., only use standard NVT ASCII + +4. Motivation. + +Several sites on the net, for example, SU-AI and MIT-AI, use +keyboards which use almost all 128 characters as printable +characters, and use one or more additional bits as "control' bits as +command modifiers or to separate textual input from command input to +programs. Without these additional bits, several characters cannot +be entered as text because they are used for control purposes, such +as the greek letter "beta' which on a TELNET connection is CONTROL-C +and is used for stopping ones job. In addition there are several +commonly used programs at these sites which require these additional +bits to be run effectively. Hence it is necessary to provide some +means of sending characters larger than 8 bits wide. + +5. Description of the option. + +This option is to allow the transmission of extended ASCII. + +Experience has shown that most of the time, 7-bit ASCII is typed, +with an occasional "control' character used. Hence, it is expected +normal NVT ASCII would be used for 7-bit ASCII and that +extended-ASCII be sent as an escape character sequence. + +The exact meaning of these additional bits depends on the user +program. At SU-AI and at MIT-AI, the first two bits beyond the +normal 7-bit ASCII are passed on to the user program and are denoted +as follows. + +Bit 8 (or 200 octal) is the CONTROL bit +Bit 9 (or 400 octal) is the META bit + +(NOTE: "CONTROL' is used in a non-standard way here; that is, it +usually refers to codes 0-37 in NVT ASCII. CONTROL and META are +echoed by prefixing the normal character with 013 (integral symbol) +for CONTROL and 014 (plus-minus) for META. If both are present, it +is known as CONTROL-META and echoed as 013 014 7-bit character.) + + + + + + -2- + +TELNET EXTENDED ASCII OPTION +RFC 698, NIC 32964 (July 23, 1975) + + + +6. Description of Stanford Extended ASCII Characters + +In this section, the extended graphic character set used at SU-AI is +described for reference, although this specific character set is not +required as part of the extended ASCII Telnet option. Characters +described as "hidden" are alternate graphic interpretations of codes +normally used as format effectors, used by certain typesetting +programs. + +Code Graphic represented + +000 null (hidden vertically centered dot) +001 downward arrow +002 alpha (all Greek letters are lowercase) +003 beta +004 logical and (caret) +005 logical not (dash with downward extension) +006 epsilon +007 pi +010 lambda +011 tab (hidden gamma) +012 linefeed (hidden delta) +013 vertical tab (hidden integral) +014 formfeed (hidden plus-minus) +015 carriage return (hidden circled-plus) +016 infinity +017 del (partial differential) +020 proper subset (right-opening horseshoe) +021 proper superset (left-opening horseshoe) +022 intersection (down-opening horseshoe) +023 union (up-opening horseshoe) +024 universal quantifier (upside-down A) +025 existential quantifier (backwards E) +026 circled-times +027 left-right double headed arrow +030 underbar +031 right pointing arrow +032 tilde +033 not-equal +034 less-than-or-equal +035 greater-than-or-equal +036 equivalence (column of 3 horizontal bars) +037 logical or (V shape) +040-135 as in standard ASCII + + + + + + -3- + +TELNET EXTENDED ASCII OPTION +RFC 698, NIC 32964 (July 23, 1975) + + + +136 upward pointing arrow +137 left pointing arrow +140-174 as in standard ASCII +175 altmode (prints as lozenge) +176 right brace +177 rubout (hidden circumflex) + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + -4- |