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- From: rjhanson@shell.portal.com (Roland - Hanson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: Telnet program
- Date: 15 Jan 1996 23:37:29 GMT
- Organization: Portal Communications Company -- 408/973-9111 (voice) 408/973-8091 (data)
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- References: <1996Jan9.183556.1@orion.alaska.edu> <4d1lu6$qa0@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>
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- Bill Askew (askew@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM) wrote:
- : In article <1996Jan9.183556.1@orion.alaska.edu>,
- : Brian Myers <asbnm@orion.alaska.edu> wrote:
- : >I need a good telnet program to use with AmiTCP 4.0. I get my SLIP access
- : >through a BBS, and occasionally I want to telnet into that BBS, but the problem
- : >is, the first ANSI code that comes through gets remapped to one of those pale
- : >MagicWB colors, and pale tan on grey is extremely difficult to see. Napsaterm
- : >at least lets you set the background to black, but Napsaterm is also rlogin,
- : >not telnet. All of the telnet programs for the PC let you do this, why not any
-
- : Try setting the tooltype DEVICE=TELNET
-
- If running napsaterm from CLI, telnet must be specified in the file
- ../db/napsaprefs with the line:
- napsaterm.device: telnet
-