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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Delta) says:
>

[Deleted]

>
>Now, for my two questions:
>

[First question deleted]

>Number 2:
>When I open a new terminal (telnet) window from WinQVT (Win 3.1 version),
>it will remember previous sites I logged into since I first load it.
>Is there a way to "remember" sites that I've logged onto in previous
>runnings of WinQVT?

In most setups, you need to enter the information manually into the
QVTHOST.RC file.  The syntax is:

    <address> <name> [alias] [alias] [. . .]

for example:

    192.35.222.222  melvyl.ucop.edu  melvyl

WinQVT/Net does not use a QVTHOST.RC file in environments using a
HOSTS file (these include PC-NFS and Windows Sockets).  The HOSTS
file should be modified instead.

You should already have the appropriate file, as it is needed to locate
nameservers.  It can be modified with a text editor, such as Windows'
Notepad.
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From: [e-mail] (Simon North)
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Subject: Trumpet News: why did no-one tell me about NEWS.INI


I have been running myself ragged for several weeks trying to get my Trumpet
News Reader to work. Everything seemed to go fine with QVT/Net (apart from
regular crashes) but trumpet failed to do anything. I tried to monitor all the
TCP and IP calls but Nothing/Nada/Nichts was going in the direction of the
server (I am connected through a 2400 modem over a public dial-in to a SLIP
server).

I have now solved it! ... and I could kick myself, but maybe there is a lesson
for someone else in this. The problem was the fact that the NEWS.INI file that
I got with the software is empty. Once I had put the names of a couple of
groups in the file (I used Windows Write but that isn't really relevant)
everything worked fine ... that is, if this posting has made it then it works
fine.

What a silly bunt!

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Subject: Re: WINSOCK not ok

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Peter R. Tattam) writes:
>Also, there is a well known problem of dropping characters if receiving at
>very high baud rates from an external modem.  If you don't have a 16550a
>chip in your comms board, the odd character will be dropped when things like
>disk activity and the like are happening.  While not serious for a regular
>terminal session, this can have a bad impact on SLIP performance.

I forgot to mention that I never have experienced dropping any characters at
all.

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Subject: Winsock hosts table dependence

Hi All

Ive tried several Winsock apps recently, and am annoyed by the number of
apps that need a local host machine entry in the Winsock hosts file.
My PC gets its IP via BOOTP. Ive been able to make QVT happy by making the
PCs name BOOT. Other applications, such as (I can remember his name) LPD
server, and WSLPRSP require a hosts entry.  Does anyone know a fix for
this ?

Regards

Jim
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Subject: Re: WINSOCK not ok

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Peter R. Tattam) writes:

>>I've had the experience of having everything stop for periods of from seconds
>>to 10s of seconds while using Trumpet Winsock, but I thought that was caused
>>by the SLIP server.

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>>Pete Holsberg                   The House On *This* Side Of U.S. 1

>Sigh...  quite amusing this little thread...

>As it so happens I have the exact same problem.... guess when it happens...
>when the washing machine is going.    I can pick it every time.... I get the
>delays..  sometimes up 10-20 seconds...  then I ask my wife... "You doing
>the washing dear?" ... "Yes,  how did you guess? "  :-)

>I put this behaviour down to the script command I added in the standard
>script to switch the modem into "auto retrain" mode on high speed modems.
>When line errors exceed a certain number, (probably caused by line
>interference on the power line), the modem performs an auto retrain of the
>connection.  This can take quite a while ~10-15 secs, and in the meantime,
>data from the modem grinds to a halt.

>Also, there is a well known problem of dropping characters if receiving at
>very high baud rates from an external modem.  If you don't have a 16550a
>chip in your comms board, the odd character will be dropped when things like
>disk activity and the like are happening.  While not serious for a regular
>terminal session, this can have a bad impact on SLIP performance.  Because
>of this and other problems with serial links, PPP was defined.  PPP has it's
>own link layer error detection, this problem is not so critical and can be
>recovered from.

>so.....could you be suffering from "Washing machine" syndrome?
>or is it "lack-of-16550-itis"  ?

I've had it happen on a machine with a 16550 when no washing was being done.
However, it may be that the local power company was --- <ack!! splut!! gack!!

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Hi,

How can I unsubscribe to WINSOCK listserv. I tried mailing to
[e-mail] with
UNSUBSCRIBE WINSOCK my_address
as text

Sorry for posting this in the forum as I would really like to unsubscribe.

Thanks

Anand
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Subject: $25??

  Can someone please update me on this $25 dollar stack.  I have lost some news
over the last few days.  This sounds interesting.

--DPE




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Subject: Re: COMM driver for Windows?

  Eric, you asked how Mike was getting 3.5 K a sec from his PPP/Slip
connection.  Well, I cannot answer that, but I can tell you why you are not
getting Great speeds:

You are using Cac or OTC's terminal server.  They are terribly slow.  I have
gotten %30 percent better speeds from other ppp servers than PSU's.

Also, you menton you tried PPP and SLIP with Trumpet Winsock.  I was under the
understanding that Trumpet only supported SLIP.  Is there something I do not
know about?





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Subject: Error message on WinQVT

Hi,

    I've been getting these error messages very regularly. They
are :
    Hardware buffer overflow
    and
    Invalid destination IP address

    Can someone please tell me what they mean and how to solve
them?

    Thanks in advance!

                            Richie

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