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- NCSA Telnet Digest Thursday, 22 December 1988 Volume 2 : Issue 12
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- Subjects:
- Your new editor
- NCSA Telnet reboots PCs?
- Request to send NCSA Telnet by mail
- NCSA Telnet timing out on Ethernet'ed Mac II
- There is no NCSA Telnet 3.0 - current version is 2.2
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- Your new editor -
-
- Since Gaige has gone on to InterCon, I am your new list editor.
- My name is Tim Krauskopf, and I am the project leader for NCSA Telnet.
- This list provides a lot of my input for bug fixes and new features for
- later releases. It is also the primary way for me to share with you answers
- to your questions. I will be offering answers to some of the questions
- presented, but in many cases, your experiences will provide a better
- solution to a user's question than I can provide.
-
- I will also be sharing bug reports and common questions/answers.
- Also, all new version announcements are sent to this list first.
-
- Let's get started . . .
-
- Tim Krauskopf, aka "Tim K"
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- From: sdaniels@NMSU.Edu
- Date: Mon, 12 Dec 88 11:34:21 MST
- Subject: rebooting problem
-
- I need some help..
- We are running version 2.2 of NCSA telnet. On two of your IBM PC's when
- you exit out of telnet ( logging off a machine ) the PC reboots. This does
- not happen on all the other PC we have ( approx. 15 ). The telnet is on a
- bootable disk. One of the PC's is a version one PC. We have tried the
- software on other PC's ( version 1 and version 2 ) and the telnet exits
- great. I have also tried running under different versions of DOS
- ( 2.0, 2.1 , 3.0 , 3.1 ) and both computers still do the same thing. All the
- PC's in our Dept are configured the same. They are not clones. We are running
- DOS 3.1. Both computers have 512K in them.
-
-
-
- Please replay back via E-MAIL because I am not on the mailing list.
-
- My E-MAIL address is sdaniels@nmsu.edu.
-
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- [ All I can think of is that the high portion of COMMAND.COM is being
- overwritten by scrollback and causing the reboot -- other suggestions?
- Interrupt conflicts with other boards?
- Tim K.]
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-
- Date: Thu, 13 Oct 88 10:12 EST
- From: John Jamison <JAMISON@physics.swarthmore.edu>
- Subject: Request for NCSA Telnet 2.2
- To: telnet@ncsa.uiuc.edu
-
-
- Could someone please send me a BINHEXed copy of NCSA Telnet 2.2? Are such
- requests legal and morally upright?
-
- John Jamison
- Swarthmore College
-
- jamison%physics.swarthmore.edu@cunvym.bitnet
- jamison@swarthmr.bitnet
-
- [ At NCSA, we cannot honor these requests, but they are certainly
- legally and morally upright because NCSA Telnet is in the public domain.
- Since the distribution size is large, please don't abuse the internet by
- mailing large amounts during the day. Tim K.
- ]
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- Subject: Possible Telnet 2.2 bug
- Date: Thu, 13 Oct 88 17:19:21 EDT
- From: tim wicinski <wicinski@nrl-css.arpa>
-
- I'm using telnet 2.2 on a standard Mac II with a Kinetics EtherPort II card.
- I have my network set up for built-in, but i have ncsa telnet configured for
- Ethertalk. It works fine excpet occasionally if i leave a window around too
- long it times out.
- the window times out, but the window is still there, waiting for input
- (however no input is echoed, and are you there packets get lost as well).
- checking the machine i logged in to, i find that i have been disconnected.
- I usually have to Kill the connection or quit.
-
- I have only been able to repeat this twice, but someone else here at
- the lab with a similiar
- setup had the same situation, so it looks like it's not fluke (unless
- it's happing on both
- machine).
-
- has anyone seen this behavior ?
-
- thanks
- tim wicinski
- naval research labs
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- [ If I had to guess, I would say that you and this other person have
- assigned the same IP number to two different machines. If the other
- person starts up his session, his Macintosh will effectively re-route
- your packets into the bit bucket.
- Tim K.]
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-
- Date: Sat Oct 15 18:15:25 1988 EDT
- From: Marc Russell Pawliger <mp1w+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- To: telnet@ncsa.uiuc.edu
- Subject: bug in 3.0
-
-
- I'm using telnet 3.0 on a mac II to a UNIX machine. I set the terminal
- type to 'dj', which is a 23 line vt100, using the 24th for a non-scrolling
- status line. Every time a program tried to make use of the 24th line,
- telnet crapped out and hung the machine cold.
-
- -Marc Pawliger
-
-
- [ THERE IS NO NCSA TELNET 3.0 !!
- There is a Stanford SU/IP 3.0, though.
- Sounds like their bug; how does NCSA Telnet work in that situation?
- If it is NCSA Telnet 2.2, it could be origin mode - a known bug to be fixed.
- Tim K.]
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