>>>>Also...stty intr ^C susp ^Z  no longer works...BTW...This stuff all works 
> I have non-deterministically seen this problem. Never had any problems
> with ^C and ^Z though (bash is my usual shell, but I've tried tcsh also).

zsh here.

>>>> on the console...and it's OK if I rlogin or rsh...So, my guess is that 
>>>> libtelnet and/or telnetd is hosed.  Anybody?
> It's pretty definitely tied up with telnetd and/or your client telnet
> program. (Where do you telnet from?)

           A Mac running NCSA Telnet 2.5.2.

> I've never had the interrupt character problem, but the problems
> are almost certainly tied up with telnet's LINEMODE options. Try
> compiling telnetd without -DKLUDGELINEMODE (first), then without
> -DLINEMODE.

I'll try this after I pick up a recent source set.

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