telnet not sending function keys properly

[thosey]

When booting into micro core and using the telnet program the function keys are not supported. They place A, B, C and so on into the stream. I can get around this by using esc A "[A" then enter. When using core plus in the gui mode and opening a terminal window to use telnet I don't have this problem. Function keys send the "[A" characters to the stream. Any ideas what I may be missing?

[tinypoodle]

FWIW, fuction keys are working using dbclient on VT.

Kind of curious now for what purpose function keys could be needed with telnet...

[thosey]

JDE or JD Edwards is what my company uses for most of its databases. I was looking to have micro core boot up on a HP T5710 and script it to start a telnet session into JDE. The T5710 has a flash based hard drive of 128MB so I wanted a small fast booting OS. I think the micro core fits the bill instead of me creating my own. When booting into X and using terminal there is no problem using telnet. Sort of weird.

[tinypoodle]

Maybe you might consider using dropbear instead of telnet to avoid a need of X.

[tinypoodle]

Also you could give GNU inetutils telnet a try to see how that works.
Personally I wouldn't know of any service available through telnet making use of function keys, therefore I could not test such.

GNU inetutils are taking up more  space than dropbear but less than an X server.