When standards are released on the Internet, they are called Requests For Comments and document the behavior of a part of the way in which the Internet works. RFC 854 documents how the telnet protocol works and specifies that whenever host systems send certain characters, such as carriage returns, that they are encoded in a special way. For example, a carriage return followed by an * is actually sent as *. Obviously, telnet clients then perform the appropriate processing, normally removing the extra null from the host. Alpha Micro’s otherwise excellent AlphaTCP product doesn’t handle these encoding sequences. ZTERM 2000 needs to know when connecting to AlphaTCP and this is why there is checkbox on the Port sheet in the Configuration menu. We tried to figure a way to determine this automatically but we concluded that a manual setting was safer. Simply check this box if you’re connecting to an Alpha Micro running AlphaTCP and un-check it (the default) if you’re connecting to a
