python telnetlib fix ==================== Purpose ------- Fix python's telnetlib specifically its IAC handling. telnetlib is unable to connect to a few telnet daemons because of improper IAC handling, this is a oneliner to reject WILL messages which then allows many more (all ?) telnet daemons to work with it, namely fixes interaction with FreeBSD. How to Apply ------------ get python release 1.6a2 (e.g. ftp://ftp.python.org/pub/python/src/) tar xvzf python-1.6.tar.gz cd python-1.6 patch -p1 < ../file.patch (or whatever you called it) ./configure make Caolan McNamara (2000)