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- NCSA Telnet Digest Friday, March 31, 1989 Volume 2 : Issue 21
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- BITNET subscribers will probably find this is the first message from
- this list in a while. We have recently corrected a problem with our
- mailer to BITNET addresses. - Tim K.
-
- Subjects:
- Multinet compatibility
- 3270 emulator compatibility problems?
- Appletalk driver for PC version.
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- From: adelman@TGV.COM (Kenneth Adelman)
-
- > The following is from NCSA Telnet 2.2's buglist:
-
- > Wollongong or MultiNet on VAX/VMS - These TCP implementations can drop
- > characters when delivering keyboard input to your login process. When
- > pasting characters in Mac Telnet, NCSA Telnet often overruns the host's
- > buffers and characters are lost. TCP delivers each and every character,
- > but some are dropped on the host side. The workaround is to only paste
- > smaller amounts of text.
-
- One of our customers reported this comment in your documentation
- to us. It isn't entirely correct.
-
- Under MultiNet if you overrun the keyboard input buffer characters
- are indeed dropped if your terminal is set /NOHOSTSYNC (the usual
- default). If your terminal is set /HOSTSYNC when the buffer fills,
- the network stops shoving characters down it and waits for it to
- drain, allowing you to 'paste' larger amounts of text. The usual
- semantics of /HOSTSYNC is whether the VAX should use ^S/^Q flow
- control to slow down a terminal which is sending too fast, and I think
- the mapping of /HOSTSYNC to control network flow control is only
- natural.
-
- This is fixed in Version 2.0 of our product. Customers who have
- the problem under Version 1.0 should contact me about receiving an
- update. I have no reason to believe that this is fixed in the
- Wollongong implementation (we fixed it independently).
-
- Kenneth Adelman
- TGV, Incorporated
-
- [
- When we posted the buglist, I don't think Multinet 2.0 existed.
- I think it is quite appropriate to map ^S/^Q to this setting. As a
- user, I want all characters delivered all of the time. Tim K.]
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- Date: Wed, 22 Mar 89 09:06:39 CST
- From: timk (Tim Krauskopf)
- Subject: Sun's 3270 SunLINK
-
- I am very interested in hearing from users of 3270 products, such as
- Sun's 3270 product. If you have problems using NCSA Telnet as a remote
- terminal for use with a Sun-based 3270 product, please let me know.
- My reports have been that the telnet application crashes with a bomb ID=01
- or other bomb when you select Quit, but rarely crashes while running.
-
- I would like to get a uuencoded dump of one of these sessions so that I
- may track down this reported bug.
-
- Tim Krauskopf
- NCSA
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- The posted AppleTalk driver for NCSA Telnet for the PC has been updated.
- It has now been tested over the Kinetics gateway software. I have had
- reports of problems with FTP and ping though. Please let me know what
- your experience has been.
- in NCSA_Telnet/contributions
-
- Tim Krauskopf
- NCSA
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