RFC 2877 (rfc2877) - Page 2 of 36

5250 Telnet Enhancements

RFC 2877                5250 Telnet Enhancements               July 2000


Table of Contents

    1.  Enhancing Telnet Negotiations......................   3
    2.  Standard Telnet Option Negotiation.................   3
    3.  Enhanced Telnet Option Negotiation.................   4
    4.  Enhanced Display Emulation Support.................   7
    5.  Enhanced Display Auto-Signon and Password
        Encryption.........................................   8
        5.1   Password Substitutes Processing..............  12
        5.2   Handling passwords of length 9 and 10........  14
        5.3   Example Password Substitute Calculation......  15
    6.  Device Name Collision Processing...................  15
    7.  Enhanced Printer Emulation Support.................  16
    8.  Telnet Printer Terminal Types......................  18
    9.  Telnet Printer Startup Response Record for Printer
        Emulators..........................................  20
        9.1  Example of a Success Response Record.........   20
        9.2  Example of an Error Response Record..........   21
        9.3  Response Codes...............................   22
   10.  Printer Steady-State Pass-Through Interface........  23
        10.1  Example of a Print Record....................  25
        10.2  Example of a Print Complete Record...........  27
        10.3  Example of a Null Print Record...............  27
   11.  End-to-End Print Example...........................  28
   12.  Authors' Note......................................  33
   13.  References.........................................  33
   14.  Security Considerations............................  35
   15.  Authors' Addresses.................................  35
   16.  Relation to Other RFC's............................  35
   17.  Full Copyright Statement...........................  36

LIST OF FIGURES

   Figure 1.  Example of a success status response
              record.......................................  20
   Figure 2.  Example of an error response record..........  21
   Figure 3.  Layout of the printer pass-through
              header.......................................  23
   Figure 4.  Server sending client data with a print
              record.......................................  26
   Figure 5.  Client sending server a print complete
              record.......................................  27
   Figure 6.  Server sending client a null print
              record.......................................  28







Murphy, et al.               Informational