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- From: books@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu (Roger Books)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Subject: Re: Telnetting to a PC (with FLAMES)
- Message-ID: <books.48.0@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 07:39:51 GMT
- References: <Bsvost.J2L@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>
- Organization: FSU Physics Dept.
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- In article <Bsvost.J2L@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> stefan@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Stefan Mochnacki) writes:
-
- >I wrote:
-
- >> OK, what WOULD be very nice is a PC screen to PC screen sort of telnet,
- >> not the TCP/IP standard defined by the VT100 (sort of like
- >> native mode PC-ANYWHERE...)
- >>
- >> Has any noble soul produced such an offering for us network beggars?
- >>
-
- >Kevin Knapmiller replies:
-
- > If you are willing to pay some money and want a little more than
- > this you should check out DesqView/X. It might be more than
- > you need or cost more than you want to pay, even though the
- > price in September 'might' be acceptable to many of us.
-
- > (See newsgroup comp.os.msdos.desqview)
-
-
- >Yes, I quite agree, and we already have a copy, but in addition to
- >the Desqview/X you need Quarterdeck's TCP/IP Manager, AND the FTP
- >kernel (or soon a TCP/IP kernel from Novell...). This just about
- >triples the price; we're talking very serious bucks, and we ARE
- >eventually going to have several systems running DVX, but for our
- >typical low-budget NCSA Telnet user the economics make no sense.
- >Also there are much more limited applications than would warrant
- >shelling out the big bucks. I think Quarterdeck made a serious mistake in
- >going for the Novell market instead of the TCP/IP world.
-
- As I pointed out in the DV area, in the TCP/IP world Desqview is competing
- with other X-windows products which cost about the same and require the FTP
- inc products. They also don't have the added DesqView multitasking.
-
- If you still think it's too much compare it to an X-terminal.
-
- Note: the above is not a flame, I have the same problem only I have the
- additional problem that my low budget users need tektronix 4010(15)
- emulation. Most of the code seems to be there in NCSA, the screens come
- up and display, but you get what looks like debugging code when you try to
- use the keyboard or mouse.
-
-
- >--
- >Stefan W. Mochnacki INTERNET - stefan@centaur.astro.utoronto.ca
- >Astronomy, U. of Toronto UUCP - {uunet,pyramid}!utai!helios.physics!stefan
- >Ph. (416) 884-9562 BITNET - mochnacki@utorphys.bitnet
- >FAX (416) 884-2672 LOCATION - David Dunlap Observatory
-
- Roger
- books@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu
-