[fpc-pascal] Telnet subcommands revisited

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Please could somebody with appropriate privilege reopen 
http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=22032, or tell me to start a new bug.

The patch I supplied added a facility for lTelnet to be able to parse 
and respond to telnet subcommands such as $18 which queries the client 
terminal type. Unfortunately, what I've done is incomplete since it 
relies on (a) the entire subcommand with its parameters being available 
before TLTelnetClient.React() is called, and (b) FStack (as referred to 
in the new subcommand() procedure) being able to accumulate an arbitrary 
number of bytes rather than being limited to 3 (the lControlStack unit).

I'm not sure the best way to progress this, the problem is that an 
arbitrary amount of the incoming command etc. is buffered in 
TLTelnetClient.OnRe() and TLTelnet.TelnetParse() so it's not possible to 
do a read-ahead from deeper down the call stack.

At present the simplest option looks like a way to temporarily "inflate" 
the size of the stack in lControlStack, so that in the specific case 
where a subcommand is being accumulated it can hold more than three 
characters. Any ideas would be appreciated.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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