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- From: jbunch@nyx.cs.du.edu (John Bunch)
- Subject: Re: n890421 (KA9Q for the Atari ST....)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.145943.13830@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 14:59:43 GMT
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- hyc@hanauma.jpl.nasa.gov (Howard Chu) writes:
-
- >In article <72777@cup.portal.com> Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
- >>John Bunch asked about using telnet in the ST version of KA9Q.
-
- >Unfortunately he seems to be talking about a different version than the
- >one you may be familiar with.
- >>
- >>I've been using KA9Q to telnet successfully for quite a while now. The
- >>only time I've had problems with it is when I have a RAMdisk installed,
- >>but that shouldn't affect you if you cold booted with a "clean" system..
-
- >What kinds of problems were those? I've never had any trouble of this sort.
- >(Hm. How much RAM in your setup?)
- >>
- >>The only thing I can think of to check.. is "start telnet" in your
- >>NET.RC file in the root directory of the drive you run KA9Q from..?
-
- >The various "start" commands are for starting up the servers that handle
- >incoming connection attempts. When you say "telnet blah" you're invoking
- >the telnet client to make an outgoing connection. The two are independent
- >and will have no effect on each other (unless of course, you're trying
- >to telnet to yourself...).
-
- >The bug that John refers to is mentioned in the ReadMe that accompanies
- >the n890421 package. Oddly enough, it seems to be based on the same code
- >that my port was based on, but includes support for many more protocols.
- >Doesn't seem to do SLFP or PPP though.
-
-
- Is this the bug about setting echo to refuse??? I tried setting that and
- it still died. I found that if I had mint installed I could start a
- telnet connection without my machine bombing, but I never get a login:
- prompt from the machine I am telnetting to. I type a CTRL-T and the
- machine I am trying to connect to responds with i am here...
-
- I have just about given up...
-
- John
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