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- NCSA Telnet Digest Tuesday, 10 Nov 1987 Volume 1 : Issue 8
-
- Today's Topics:
- Re: Blinking Sessions
- Re: Nick Names
- Re: Blinking Sessions
- NCSA Telnet Source Code Availability
-
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-
- Subject: Re: NCSA Telnet Digest - Vol 1 : Issue 7
- From: tom@citi.umich.edu
- Date: 5 Nov 1987 08:49 EST
-
- Regarding blinking sessions:
-
- The blinking session is annoying. In vi, where the bell can ding
- several times if I hit the wrong key sequence, the blinking makes me
- tense. Can you blink the title bar or some other smaller portion of
- the window? Blinking only background windows is another good
- solution.
-
-
- Regarding nick names:
-
- Our resolver uses a default domain name, providing short names for all
- the hosts in your domain and requiring the full name of hosts outside
- the domain. If you use this approach our resolvers will work
- consistantly.
-
- We keep a list of hosts that the user has connected to before. They
- type the name the first time then select it from a scrolling list every
- other time. Further, with MacNFS users are most likeley to use hosts
- on their local net which will probably be in their local domain.
-
- I don't like schemes that allow each user to create their own nick
- names because of the potential of everyone comming up with different
- names for the same hosts. I would like to know that the same nick names
- are valid on Steve's machine as on mine.
-
- Tom. tom@citi.umich.edu
-
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-
- Subject: Re: NCSA Telnet Digest - Vol 1 : Issue 7
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 87 02:39:16 pst
- From: John Matzka <johnm@jacobs.cs.orst.edu>
-
- On the Blinking Session...
- Good suggestion. Only blink the session if it is not the current one. Still
- though you might also make it an option to blink the current session as well.
-
- johnm
-
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-
- Subject: password file format?
- Date: 9 Nov 1987 21:25 EST
- From: Duane.Williams@ME.RI.CMU.EDU
-
- The NCSA Telnet 2.0 manual describes a password protection feature, but
- does not describe the format of the password file. Can someone please
- tell me what it is?
-
- Thanks,
- Duane
-
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-
- Subject: NCSA Telnet source code -- free
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 14:55:32 CST
- From: timk@zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Tim Krauskopf)
-
-
-
- NCSA Telnet source code is now available.
-
- The National Center for Supercomputing Applications announces our source
- code release of NCSA Telnet version 2.1.
-
- This message includes:
-
- Source Code pricing information
- Some changes from 2.0 to 2.1 (you may not need to upgrade)
- Mailing list for telnet related questions/bugs (telnet@ncsa.uiuc.edu)
- User/Developer forum at TCP/IP conference in December
-
-
- Source Code
-
- There are a variety of disk options if you don't want to spend all night
- transferring files (even compressed ones). See the price list at the end
- of this note for details. Note that the Anonymous FTP directories are
- available on one convenient tape and it contains all of the files from the
- other disks.
-
- Compilers: PC - Lattice C 3.1, Microsoft C 4.0 (MSC not debugged).
- Mac - Aztec C, there will be an MPW version soon.
-
- All of these files are available via anonymous FTP on NSFnet and ARPANET
- from host 128.174.20.50 (ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu).
-
-
- Enhancements in version 2.1
-
- For the PC, we have added a driver for the MICOM NI5210 (not the NI5010)
- board, and a driver for the IBM (Ungermann-Bass) NIC Ethernet board. You
- use the same configuration files for each board, but select a different
- .EXE file to run.
-
- For the Macintosh, we include support for Apple's new EtherTalk driver
- directly for use with the new EtherTalk Ethernet board. We also support the
- Kinetics' EtherSC and EtherPort SE products with their EtherTalk driver.
-
- Unless you have these hardware needs, you may not need to upgrade from 2.0
- to 2.1. You should upgrade from anything pre-2.0 to version 2.1.
-
-
- Mailing list and conference meeting
-
- We are sponsoring a mailing list for people interested in keeping up with the
- NCSA Telnet distribution and the various groups taking part in future
- development. The address is telnet@ncsa.uiuc.edu. Send a message to
- telnet-request@ncsa.uiuc.edu to get on the list.
-
- There will be a meeting at Advanced Computing Environment's TCP/IP conference
- in December. We will discuss user problems and the status of various
- development projects. This will be a good time to ask technical questions.
-
-
- Thanks for your interest, some details follow the signature,
-
- Tim Krauskopf
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
- University of Illinois
-
- timk@ncsa.uiuc.edu (ARPA)
- timk%newton@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (alternate)
- 14013@ncsavmsa (BITNET)
-
- --------------------------------------------------------------------
- Fact Sheet
- ----------
-
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications presents:
-
- NCSA Telnet for the PC, version 2.1
- NCSA Telnet for the Macintosh, version 2.1
-
- These programs are copyrighted, but distributed with no license fee.
- Source code is available.
-
- Features included in version 2.1 of NCSA Telnet:
- -----------------------------------------------
- DARPA standard telnet
- Built-in standard FTP server for file transfer
- VT102 emulation in multiple, simultaneous sessions
- Class A,B and C addressing with standard subnetting
- Tektronix 4014 graphics emulation
- Scrollback for each session
- Each session in a different window (Macintosh)
- Supports Croft gateway - KIP (Macintosh)
- Support for EtherTalk (Macintosh)
- Capture text to a file (PC)
- Full color support (PC)
- Support for 3COM, MICOM and IBM (Ungermann-Bass) boards (PC)
-
- How to obtain:
- -------------
- 1) From a friend
-
- The disk, documentation and files may be copied freely and distributed in
- binary form, unmodified, with copyright notices intact. This distribution
- is free and no copies may be sold for profit.
-
- 2) Anonymous FTP from ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu (128.174.20.50)
-
- You may want to ftp the README file to determine which files to transfer
- to your home machine.
-
- For the PC version, you have your choice of tar files which are individual
- for each type of Ethernet board. For each tar file, there is also a
- compressed tar file with the same contents. The documentation file goes
- with any type of Ethernet. After the files are extracted from the tar
- file, some transfer method (e.g. kermit, NCSA Telnet) should be used to
- download the files to the PC. The documentation is in line printer
- format. Remember to download .EXE files in binary mode.
-
- The Macintosh version consists of several files encoded with BinHex 4.0,
- Pack-It or Stuff-It. You may want to consult the README file to determine
- which files to transfer. Download them with a binary transfer method
- (kermit, NCSA Telnet) and extract the individual files. The documentation
- is in Microsoft Word 3.0 format.
-
- 3) Diskette
-
- On-disk copies, with a printed manual are available for a small fee, which
- covers materials, handling and postage. Orders can only be accepted if
- accompanied by a check made out to the University of Illinois. Send to:
-
- NCSA Telnet orders (specify PC or Macintosh and product)
- 152 Computing Applications Building
- 605 E. Springfield Ave.
- Champaign, IL 61820
-
- Here is the price list:
- NCSA Telnet for the PC (2.1,2.1M,2.1IBM) $20.00
- (three 360K disks, PC user/installation guide)
- NCSA Telnet for the Macintosh (2.1,2.1E) $20.00
- (two 400K disks, Macintosh user/installation guide)
- NCSA Telnet for the PC source $20.00
- (two 1.2M disks, Developer's guide)
- NCSA Telnet for the Macintosh source $20.00
- (one 800K disk, Developer's guide)
- Anonymous FTP source reel tape $30.00
- (recent contents of our anonymous ftp directory,
- 1600BPI 9track Sun-BSD tar format, Developer's guide)
- Anonymous FTP source cartridge tape $50.00
- (recent contents of our anonymous ftp directory,
- 1/4 inch cartridge tape Sun tar format, Developer's guide)
-
- Hardware required:
- -----------------
- PC: IBM PC,XT, AT or compatible.
- 3COM 3C501 Etherlink board.
- or IBM RT PC Baseband adapter.
- or Ungermann-Bass PC-NIC board.
- or MICOM NI5210 Ethernet board.
-
- Mac: Macintosh Plus, SE or Macintosh II.
- FastPath from Kinetics Inc. Walnut Creek, CA (415) 947-0998 and
- Kinetics gateway software or Stanford KIP (Croft) gateway software.
- or
- EtherSC or EtherportSE and EtherTalk software from Kinetics.
- or
- Apple EtherTalk board and software for the Macintosh II.
-
- Mailing List:
- ------------
- Mail to telnet-request@ncsa.uiuc.edu to be added to the list of recipients.
- To post messages to the list, mail to telnet@ncsa.uiuc.edu.
- If your mailer cannot resolve ncsa.uiuc.edu (128.174.20.42), route mail
- through uxc.cso.uiuc.edu, also known as uiucuxc.arpa.
-
- Other questions:
- ---------------
- mail to telbug@ncsa.uiuc.edu (alternate: telbug%ncsa@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu)
-
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