HELP!! When logging into a remote machine I only get ASCII chracters

Question

Hello,
When my program logs into the telnet server....ASCII characters
continuiosly scroll across my screen continiously. What I should be seeing is C:\.Instead I am seeing a continious stream of ASCII characters.Any sugesstions? (Please see the code below)
Thanks,
MM
public class RemoteConnection
/* Constructor */
public RemoteConnection(String Host, int TelnetPort)
     try
     {       /* Create a new Socket and call the pipe streams */
          /* This does not output data to the window */
socket = new Socket(Host, TelnetPort);
/* This works...I can create a terminal emulator*/
          //socket = new Socket("time.gov", 13);
new InputPipe(socket.getOutputStream()).start();
          new OutputPipe(socket).start();
     catch(IOException e)
     txtTelnetWindow.setText("");
txtTelnetWindow.setText("Error Could not connect to host: "+Host);
          return;
}/* end Constructor */
* Inner class (to Remote Connection ) which
* handles the input stream pipe
public class InputPipe extends Thread
/* Create objects of type DataInputStream and PrintStream */
//DataInputStream is;
     PrintStream os;
BufferedReader BR_is;
String TheTxt;
public InputPipe(OutputStream os)
     /* Creates a Input Stream Reader that uses an underlying buffered reader */
this.BR_is = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
     this.os = new PrintStream(os);
public void run()
String line;
     try
          while(true)
line = BR_is.readLine();
// TheTxt = txtTelnetWindow.getText();
//txtTelnetWindow.setText(line);
/* Print one character at a time */
os.println(line);
/* Note: DOS only knows "\n", "\r" is Unix */
               //Used "line seperator" instaed
//os.print("\r\n");
          //os.print("\n");
os.flush();
     catch(IOException e)
          throw new RuntimeException("Failed to read or print the line");
}/* end class input pipe */
* Inner class (to Remote Connection ) which
* handles the output stream pipe
public class OutputPipe extends Thread
     /* Create Stream Objects */
InputStream in;
     OutputStream ot;
     PrintStream os;
public OutputPipe(Socket socket)
     try
          this.ot = socket.getOutputStream();
          this.in = socket.getInputStream();
          this.os = new PrintStream(System.out);
     catch(Exception e)
          System.out.println("Oops3");
public void run()
/* Create a new String Buffer
This was the whole formating issue /
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
/* Work on reading text from the counsol */
     int i;
try
          while(true)
               /* Reads the next byte of data from the input stream */
i = in.read();     
if (i == 255) /* Read in the IAC bytes. Start over after 255th byte*/
                    int i1 = in.read();     
                    int i2 = in.read();
                    Connect(i1,i2);     
               else
/* Prints out sun OS, username and login */
sb.append(""+(char)i);
//sb.append("\n");
System.out.print((char)i);
os.flush();
txtTelnetWindow.setText(sb.toString());
catch(Exception e)
     txtTelnetWindow.setText("");
txtTelnetWindow.setText("You are no longer connected to the host");
private void Connect(int i1, int i2)
     int i = i1;
     if (i == 253)/* 253 = "DO"*/
     {         /* Write characters to the print Stream */
          i = i2;
     if (i == 1) WriteBytes(i);/* Echo */
          else if (i == 24) WriteBytes(i);/*TTYPE */
          else if (i == 31) WriteBytes(i);/* NAWS */
          else if (i == 35) WriteBytes(i);
          else if (i == 36) WriteBytes(i);
          else if (i == 39) WriteBytes(i);
private void WriteBytes(int i)
{                String ReadTxt;
     try
     /* Write the bytes to the output stream from the host machine*/
ot.write(255); /* IAC*/
          ot.write(252); /* WONT*/
          ot.write(i); /* DO */
     catch (Exception e)
          System.out.println("oops5");
} /* End output Stream class */
}/*End Class Remote Connection*/

Answer 1

I have two suggestions. Firstly, use the [code] tag to format your post. Secondly, log the output to a file and post the first 10 or 20 lines.