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- Subject: NCSA Telnet Digest V2.11
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- NCSA Telnet Digest Monday, 19 December 1988 Volume 2 : Issue 11
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- Subjects this issue:
- Back again, mailing list will be frequent
- Gaige goes to InterCon
- Microsoft C 5.0 diffs / Contributions directory
- NCSA Telnet, ATT PC6300 and MICOM NI5210 boards - problems
- WD8003A - Western Digital microchannel board query
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-
- Well, when I dug up the old mailing list, the last issue was 2.10:
-
- NCSA Telnet Digest Thursday, 8 September 1988 Volume 2 : Issue 10
-
- I'm sure some of you gave up on it, but we're back on line.
- The target frequency is once-per-week, but the backlog of messages
- is large enough to fill up several more than that over the next few
- weeks.
-
- If we get no contributions, the space will be filled with information
- about our products and plans. Bug reports and explanations will be
- shared with the list.
-
- Give us another chance, share your experiences; I'm sure the other users
- on the list will appreciate it. Thank you for your support.
-
- Tim Krauskopf
- Project Leader, NCSA Telnet
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-
-
- Gaige Paulsen has recently started a new job at InterCon Systems Corp. in
- Reston, VA. InterCon's main product, TCP/Connect is based on the public
- domain source code of NCSA Telnet for the Macintosh.
-
- InterCon's product already includes an FTP client and VT240 emulation
- including the REGIS graphics.
- InterCon's phone # is: (703)435-8170.
-
- We wish Gaige well and thank him for his irreplaceable contributions
- to NCSA Telnet.
-
- Tim Krauskopf
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- From: timk@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Tim Krauskopf)
- Subject: MSC diffs
-
- We have created a contributions directory on the anonymous FTP server
- called NCSA_Telnet/contributions.
-
- A tar file with diffs for MSC 5.0 has been posted.
-
- IMPORTANT! We have not tested these diffs. We do not guarantee in any
- way that they will be incorporated into future NCSA Telnet releases.
- They are user contributed.
-
- However, it is our intention to make the next version source compilable
- under MSC. 1Q '89 is the only time prediction we are making so far.
-
- If you find anything dangerous in the MSC diffs or have contributions or
- improvements, please mail info to telbug@ncsa.uiuc.edu. If there are
- bugs, remember, these contributions are unsupported.
-
-
- Tim Krauskopf timk@ncsa.uiuc.edu (ARPA)
-
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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- Subject: NCSA Telnet, ATT PC6300 and MICOM NI5210 boards - problems
-
-
- Thanks for the reply. I will detail for you what the conditions are
- related to the ncsa telnet not working on the PC6300. First I will begin
- by mentioning that we have approximately 1000 PC6300s on campus, are
- completing a campus wide Ethernet system (Thin-wire to every room on
- campus, fiber backbone, etc.) with extensive use of NI5210 cards with
- RAF for the administrative systems and seeking to bring online all the
- PCs for use with the TCP/IP based academic/research systems.
-
- As I beleive I mentioned in my previous communication, we use the NI5210
- in association with the RAF (DECNET based) product. The use has been
- extensive and over a two year period and always with the AT&T PC.
-
- The AT&T PC6300 is an IBM PC/XT compatible. Early versions (four years
- ago) presented some compatibility problems, but with current ROM versions
- and PAL versions, we know of no hardware or software that does not work
- with it (it is used in all of our teaching and research labs, thus is
- subjected to just about everything).
-
- In all the test results I will report below, no TSRs were loaded into
- the system and the config.sys files were kept blank (i.e. no RAF or
- other conflicting drivers). All of our other TCP/IP hosts are happily
- talking to oneanother, PCs running a commercial TCP/IP package and
- the NI5010 (not the 5210) card work just fine. We have tried the
- ncsa telnet with several AT&T PC6300s and with a half dozen different
- NI5210 cards, using many i/o page, interrupt and memory base address
- combinations, always getting the same behaviour.
-
- Upon loading ncsa telnet everything seems to work well for a period of
- time ranging from few minutes to as many as 20 minutes. The exact
- morphology of the crash differs from instance to instance. Usually,
- the program just suddenly ceases to respond to any user input,
- presenting a frozen cursor, echoing no input and not responding to
- hot-keys. Next most common failure mode is that a current telnet
- session ceases to echo input, but hot-keys do work. If one attempts
- to open a second session after the failure of the first, the program
- claims that the host is not responsive (though other machines have
- no problems at the same instant in time). This second mode will
- sometimes finally fully crash.
-
- A third failure mode is that in which character echoes get progressively
- more delayed until full crash ensues. An Ethernet monitor shows that the
- host in fact does echo the character, again and again, until the
- misbehaving ncsa telnet program finally "sees" one.
-
- I have spoken to the folks at Micom-Interlan and they claim no knowledge
- of problems with the NI5210 in the AT&T PC6300.
-
- Finally, we obtained a vanilla PC compatible (Fillarmerica PC) and
- have run ncsa telnet successfully on it! So, our only conclusion is
- some strange incompatibity of the NI5210 with the AT&T PC but apparently
- one which is software resolvable since the RAF software does work!
-
- Is there any way that you can broadcast mail to other ncsa telnet sites
- to find if anyone else has encountered (and hopefully solved) this problem?
-
- Thankyou for your help in this matter.
-
- Dave Cyganski
- cyganski@wpi-cs.wpi.edu
-
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- Date: Thu, 8 Dec 88 09:54 CST
- From: MACPHEDRAN@SASK.USask.CA
- Subject: Query about Western Digital MicroChannel Support ...
- To: telnet@ncsa.uiuc.edu
-
- Hello;
-
- I am forwarding this for someone who does not have access to electronic
- mail. Please send return mail to me.
-
- Thanks.
- Ian.
-
- ======================================================
- Could you please tell me if either Verison 2.2 of NCSA Telnet supports
- the Western Digital MicroChannel Ethernet card. It is not explicitly
- mentioned, but would it be accessible through either the WD8003 driver,
- or the 3C523 driver?
-
- Thanks.
-
-
- [ See the contributions directory for source. Wait for next version
- for released binary. -- TK
- ]
-