EOPCHAR

EOPCHAR

Specifies an end-of-packet character

TELNET

Syntax
Syntax Description

Syntax

EOPCHAR character;

Syntax Description

character: is the ASCII character used by the remote host to detect the end of a terminal input message.

Details

The EOPCHAR statement specifies the end-of-packet character for packets that are sent from the local host to the remote host. This statement is used only for asynchronous connections that do not terminate input with a carriage return character (CR). This statement is seldom needed.

character is the ASCII character used by the remote host to detect the end of a terminal input message. You can specify character in one of the following forms:

a literal character enclosed in quotes, such as '?'
a hex constant enclosed in quotes, such as '0D'X'
an ASCII mnemonic, such as CR.(footnote 1)

The default is CR (carriage return).

The end-of-packet special character cannot be an alphanumeric character, a period (.), a slash (/), or the same character that is used for the start-of-packet character.

FOOTNOTE 1: See the information about ASCII control character mnemonics in the description of the TYPE script statement later in this chapter.

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