Telnet config at server end

[tdowling at ohiolink.ohiolink.edu]

Here's a problem my resident Unix wizards can't answer (yet).  I'm 
trying to set up a series of telnet URLs at different port numbers to 
connect to different databases (telnet://host:9001 goes to database 
A, telnet://host:9002 to database B, etc.).  I've learned more about 
the Unix services and inetd.conf files than I ever wanted, and it 
actually works...

...except that all the telnet sessions I can create come up in line 
mode rather than character mode (the Unix telnet client reports that 
it's in "obsolete linemode"), an annoying detail that completely 
incapacitates one of our search interfaces.  I've seen this with 
several browser/telnet combinations, so I'm left assuming that it's 
controlled at the server end.  Anyone know what I should be doing?

Thomas Dowling
tdowling at ohiolink.edu