Thread: Control characters to emulate a prompt?

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    Control characters to emulate a prompt?

    I am writing a server that is accessed over telnet. I need to prompt the user for information. I can send a prompt such as : "Enter your name: ", however, if the user holds backspace, it overwrites the prompt, and in general, can overwrite all the output I send the user. I dont want this to happen, obviously. Does anyone have any ideas? I thought it might be possible via sending a control character of some sort.

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    Microsoft telnet.exe client supports the operation:

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    set bsasdel
    Which will send backspace characters as deletes. This makes it so you can't backspace pretty much. This may not be entirely what you want, but being bound by a 3rd party client to interface with your server, things may be restrictive.

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    If you are writing the client then you should have control of it.
    If not, Many telnet programs seperate input and output into different sections. Telnet.exe is really a horrible app and many free alternatives are available.

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    Pitty. I wanted any generic telnet client to be able to access the server. Ahwell.

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