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Telnet NVT

The telnet protocol defines a "Network Virtual Terminal" (NVT) that provides a standard interface to remote systems, regardless of their particular approach to terminal login. A telnet implementation (client or server) maps the semantics of local terminal operation to the NVT before sending data over the connection. Some aspects of the NVT include:
 
[3] The "angle brackets" here (ie, < and >) were traditionally used to indicate an ASCII control character. They are now so commonly used in HTML markup (see later) that this older usage is disappearing.
Lecture 3: Applications #1: Intro and Telnet Copyright © 2005 P.Scott, La Trobe University Bendigo.


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