I use "telnet -8 -E" for our VAX (which runs on the Charon emulator). We have Multinet ssh, but not enough ram and sundry resources to support 300+ concurrent

I use "telnet -8 -E" for our VAX (which runs on the Charon emulator). We have Multinet ssh, but not enough ram and sundry resources to support 300+ concurrent sessions. I have a container with TinySSH, with /etc/passwd accounts for each of our VAXes. These accounts are set to "exec telnet -8 -E (vaxhost)." We used to use the Reflections terminal emulator with an stunnel binary packaged with it. Reflections is now over $500 per seat in licensing, and Rocket is under $100. Rocket terminal refuses to allow a self-signed cert, and instead of renewing certs every two years, we push a private key to all our VAX users with Rocket, that launch the telnet. Without the -8 option, the line-drawing characters don't render properly. There was quite a bit of trial and error in getting this right.