Telent to VMS receives trash!! HELP!!

I am trying to write a telnet app using the Winsock control but I keep getting garbage back from the server. Are there any settings that I might need to consider when I make my connection to the server. The server is a VMS server and runs a standard telnet service (port 23). A standard telnet app(Microsoft Telnet) works fine with this server.

I've had that problem connecting to various telnet BBSes, as well as my m-net.arbornet.org UNIX account, and I can't figure out what's going on. I usually get one or two characters at the top of the window, and nothing else.

Chances are, you're recieving either just a vbLf or a vbCr instead of a vbCrLf. This will cause problems. Test for both vbCr and vbLf and convert them to a vbCrLf. This might help.

I get this coming across

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is it negotiation stuff for telnet ??

There is no negotiation for (standard) telnet. Its just straight ASCII running back and forth over a TCP/IP connection.

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