Ubuntu
netkit-telnet package

  1. Bug #1719758
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 1719758

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

The upstream Debian bug report makes reference to the man page which includes the following:

-8 Request 8-bit operation. This causes an attempt to negotiate the
        TELNET BINARY option for both input and output. By default telnet
        is not 8-bit clean.

Have you tried using that option?