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- NCSA Telnet Digest Wednesday, 29 March 1988 Volume 2 : Issue 5
-
- Today's Topics:
-
- Bug in saved sets?
- Telnet 2.1e Macintosh bugs?
- telpass.hqx (I cant ftp to the US)
-
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-
- Date: 6 Mar 88 18:48 +0800
- From: Michael Levy <mlevy%csr.UVic.cdn%ean.ubc.ca@RELAY.CS.NET>
- Subject: telpass.hqx (I cant ftp to the US)
-
- I am sorry to be a pest, but I very much want to use telpass. Please
- will you mail it to me.
- ...Michael Levy.
-
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-
- Date: Mon, 21 Mar 88 17:53:50 EST
- From: phri!alanine.phri!roy@cmcl2.NYU.EDU (Roy Smith)
- To: cmcl2!ncsa.uiuc.edu!telnet@cmcl2.NYU.EDU
- Subject: Bug in saved sets?
-
- We mostly have 4.3BSD-based Unix machines, so I've got the CR-NUL
- option set in my config file. This works fine if I open a new connection,
- but I've noticed that if I try to do a "save set" operation, when I double-
- click on the saved set file icon to start up Telnet again, the connections
- do *not* have the CR-NUL option set. Am I correct in assuming that this
- is a bug? It makes saved sets essentially useless around here. Also, saved
- sets don't seem to preserve window location (a minor problem compared to the
- CR-NUL bug). One of my goals is to be able to make up a floppy on which
- I've specified Telnet as the start up application, and in which I've got
- a saved set for an open connection to a given machine. Then I can give a
- 100% Mac-ignorant person a disk and tell them to just turn on the Mac, insert
- the disk, and wait until they get the "Login: " prompt from Unix.
-
- Another problem I've noticed is with Cut/Paste when in FTP mode.
- What I like to do is login to the remote host, get to the directory from
- which I want to retrieve a file and do "ls" to get a directory listing.
- Then I do Command-F to send the FTP command. When I get the "ftp> " prompt
- I'd like to do type "put " and then Copy/Paste from the directory listing
- I just made (I'm into long, complicated file name so this saves a lot of
- typing). Unfortunately, more often than not, when I paste down what I just
- cut, it comes out as junk (random control/meta/whatever characters). I don't
- like the cute "page" cursor in ftp mode, BTW; it's harder to see exactly
- where the cursor hot-spot is so selecting text is more difficult. It also
- looks like if you run Telnet under MultiFinder and switch out of and back
- into Telnet while in ftp mode, the cursor reverts back to the North-West
- arrow (a feature, not a bug!).
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-
- Date: Mon, 21 Mar 88 17:58:38 EST
- From: paisley@mte.ncsu.edu (Mike)
- To: "telnet@ncsa.uiuc.edu"@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu
- Subject: Telnet 2.1e Macintosh bugs?
-
- It appears that I have a semi-problem with TELNET 2.1e. I use a Mac SE with
- an EtherSC box, Finder 6.0, and a few appletalk packages like MacServe,
- AlisaTalk, and Intermail. Some of the time that I try to connect to our
- departmental VAX-11/750 (VMS 4.6) TELNET refuses. This VAX is close and on a
- relatively quiet segment. If I quit and restart TELNET it usually will
- respond. Also, after logging in, if I try to do Mac-type things, using menus,
- using the scrollback, TELNET will usually hang. Closing the connection,
- doesn't fix it. If I quit and restart TELNET it is almost always OK. I've
- tried it after removing or turning off all appletalk products, and removing
- those special INIT files that one just has to have, with no apparent
- improvement. What am I doing wrong? Is it because I have an absolute IP
- address and am not using subnet masking (even though this is a single
- machine)? Any suggestions are welcome.
-
- Is there anyone commercial or otherwise that is or will be producing a package
- for internet mail? Seems disheartening to have my own IP address and not be
- able to receive mail locally. Oh well. Maybe someday.
-
-
- Michael J. Paisley
- PAISLEY@NCSUMTE.BITNET
- PAISLEY@MTE.NCSU.EDU
- PAISLEY%MTE@NCSUVX.NCSU.EDU
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Campus Box 7907
- North Carolina State University
- Raleigh, NC 27695-7907
- (919) 737-7083
- (919) 737-2377
-
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-
- From: Gaige B. Paulsen <gaige@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
- Subject: Bug in Copy
- Date: Mon, 21 Mar 88 17:58:38 EST
-
- We have confirmed a reproducible bug in NCSA Telnet's Copy command.
- Copy may not work reliably on a selection that does not cross a
- line boundary. This bug will be fixed in the next version, but until
- then, I would suggest against making too many selections of text within
- a line.
-
- Gaige B. Paulsen
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications
-
- [ Ed note -
- [ the previously mentioned ftp paste bug is probably just another incarnation
- [ of the known copy bug.
- [ ]
-