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- IMPORTANT NOTES- June 1992 NCSA/BYU Telnet 2.5
-
- There are some substantial changes with this release of Telnet. While all of
- these changes are described fully in the documentation, they are worthy of
- mention here. If you do not already have the Telnet 2.5 documentation,
- please get it from anonymous ftp from: ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu
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- NCSA/MacTCP drivers
- NCSA Telnet previously came in two versions: NCSA driver version, and MacTCP
- driver version. However, in this release of Telnet, the two versions have been
- merged into one application. This allows greater flexibility, along with
- removing the need to have two different applications for basically the same
- program. You may select the NCSA drivers, by appropriately setting the
- "hardware=" line in config.tel to ether, or atalk.
-
- To select the MacTCP drivers, you may set hardware=mactcp in the config.tel
- file. Also, since Telnet defaults to MacTCP, if there is no hardware=mactcp
- line, Telnet will still assume that MacTCP is to be used.
-
-
- Serial Connections
- Telnet now has the ability to connect through the serial port, and can also
- optionally use SLIP. For more information about this, please see the
- documentation.
-
-
- Remap Option to Control
- The Remap Option to Control feature is not supported by System 7.0 in any
- useable form. Therefore, this feature is not allowed at all under system 7.0.
-
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- Forcesave
- There are several new keywords that can be used in the config.tel file, one of
- which is the forcesave=y option. There has previously been problems with Telnet
- not saving information correctly in the scrollback, if used with various VMS
- full-screen environments such as DEC All-In-One. With option enabled, Telnet
- will always be forced to save the text in the scrollback buffer, so that mail
- will be saved. However, this feature is for use ONLY with the DEC All-In-One
- package, and is not intended in any way for anything else. If used for other
- applications, there might be rather strange effects with text being saved in
- the scroll back buffer. For that reason this option is defaulted to a value
- of "n", and is only intended to be changed by users of the DEC package.
-
-
- FTP Client
- Telnet now comes equipped with a primitive FTP client, which is the same one as
- was previously used in the BYU variant of Telnet. Use this exactly like you
- would normally use an FTP session, except for one difference: you must log in
- manually before any work can be done. Do this by specifying the following
- nformation:
-
- user name RETURN
-
- When prompted for a password, just type in your normal password. For more
- information about this, please see Chapter 5, "File Transfer" and the section
- about the FTP Client in particular.
-
-
- Text Capture
- Another long awaited feature is the ability to save the text of a session into
- a file. You can change the name of the file in Telnet, but Telnet will always
- append a unique number to the end of the file. That allows multiple sessions to
- be saved at the same time, without having several different file names. Please
- see the Telnet documentation, Chapter 3, "Customizing the Environment."
-
-
- VT200 Emulation
- Telnet 2.5 allows VT200 emulation. For information about various escape
- sequences that Telnet uses for this emulation, please see Appendix E,
- "VT200 Escape Codes."
-
- System KCHR
- Normally all keys are mapped from the applications KCHR, but this option allows
- keys to be mapped from the System KCHR. That allows applications to use the
- same key mappings between them, instead of all applications having their own
- separate key mapping. This is useful for users in foreign countries who just
- want to be able to change the KCHR in the system file, and have all other
- applications use that mapping. If you are not planning making different
- keyboard mappings, then this option should be turned off, and should not
- concern you.
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