RFC 659 UNKNOWN TELNET · PROTOCOL

Announcing additional Telnet options

An announcement that RFCs 651 through 658 added Telnet options.

RFC EDITOR

Postel, J., "Announcing additional Telnet options", RFC 659, DOI 10.17487/RFC0659, October 1974, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc659>.

BIBTEX

@misc{rfc659,
  series = {Request for Comments},
  number = 659,
  howpublished = {RFC 659},
  publisher = {RFC Editor},
  doi = {10.17487/RFC0659},
  url = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc659},
  author = {J. Postel},
  title = {{Announcing additional Telnet options}},
  pagetotal = 1,
  year = 1974,
  month = oct,
}

PUBLISHED: October 1974
AUTHORS: J. Postel
STREAM: Legacy
DOI: 10.17487/RFC0659

RFC text

Original text · RFC Editor View on rfc-editor.org ↗

Network Working Group                                          J. Postel
Request for Comments: 659                                        SRI-ARC
NIC: 31177                                               18 October 1974


                  Announcing Addtional Telnet Options

   This is to announce the set of Telnet Options defined in Request For
   Comments 651 through 658 (NIC 31154 through 31161) are part of the
   official Telnet Options and should be added to the Protocol Notebook.

   RFC 651 is a revision of the Status Option to utilize the subcommand
   feature and reduce the number of bits required to convey the status
   information.  This revised Status Option replaces the previous Status
   Option.

   The other RFCs (652 through 658) are new Options for controlling the
   behavior of the format effector characters Carriage Return,
   Horizontal Tab, Form Feed, Vertical Tab, and Line Feed.

   Your attention is also called to RFC 645 (NIC 30899) "Network
   Standard Data Specification Syntax" which was prepared some time ago
   but has not received wide circulation.

   Unfortunately the Network Information Center can not provide hardcopy
   documents.  Currently the author is responsible for distribution of
   RFCs.

   The documents are available online as:

      [ISI]<DCROCKER>STATUS-OPTION-REVISION.TXT
      [ISI]<DCROCKER>NAOCRD.TXT
      [ISI]<DCROCKER>NAOHTS.TXT
      [ISI]<DCROCKER>NAOHTD.TXT
      [ISI]<DCROCKER>NAOFFD.TXT
      [ISI]<DCROCKER>NAOVTS.TXT
      [ISI]<DCROCKER>NAOVTD.TXT
      [ISI]<DCROCKER>NAOLFD.TXT
      [SRI-ARC]<POSTEL>RFC645.TXT
      [SRI-ARC]<POSTEL>RFC659.TXT (This Announcement)
         (If these files are not found online they may have been
         archived, in this case the files should be accessable via the
         "interogate" command.)


             [This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry]
              [into the online RFC archives by Lorrie Shiota, 2/02]

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PROBLEMReaders needed to know that several new Telnet options had been defined and where to find their specifications.

MECHANISMRFC 659 announces that RFCs 651 through 658 are part of the official Telnet options and summarizes their subjects.

WHAT THIS MEMO DOESIt is an announcement, not a technical definition of the options. Its status is listed as Unknown.

§1An Announcement of Telnet Options

RFC 659 announces that the Telnet options defined in RFCs 651 through 658 are part of the official Telnet options. It asks that they be added to the Protocol Notebook. This memo announces the documents; it does not define their detailed behavior.

This memo tells readers that eight other documents define additional Telnet options. Read those documents for the option rules.

§3Finding the Documents

The memo lists online file locations for the option documents and RFC 645, a document on network standard data specification syntax. It says that the Network Information Center could not provide printed copies at the time and that authors were responsible for distributing RFCs.

The memo points readers to online files for the detailed specifications. It also notes that printed copies were not available from the Network Information Center.