7 May
1998
7 May
'98
5:22 p.m.
Ok, how come when I'm using a windows95 based telnet client I get all
sorts of wacky-assed errors when I'm using PINE, like "Folder closed due
to access error" and "Folder reduced to 0 bytes" and "error this"
and
"error that". Basically stuff I never get when I'm using ProComm Plus.
Why is this? Why is a bug-free telnet session such a chore under Windows?
This is not just with the lame windows telnet either. I thought getting
CRT would clear this up but it happens with that too. What's going on
here? Any help would be greatly apprciated, especially in private e-mail.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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8 May
8 May
12:21 a.m.
Ok, how come when I'm using a windows95 based telnet client I get all
sorts of wacky-assed errors when I'm using PINE, like "Folder closed due
to access error" and "Folder reduced to 0 bytes" and "error
this" and
"error that". Basically stuff I never get when I'm using ProComm Plus.
Why is this? Why is a bug-free telnet session such a chore under Windows?
This is not just with the lame windows telnet either. I thought getting
CRT would clear this up but it happens with that too. What's going on
here? Any help would be greatly apprciated, especially in private e-mail.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
Try another telnet... Take a look at www.tucows.org at TeraTerm Pro...
or the upgrade to Hilgraeve's terminal emulator that ships with windows.
The Microsoft Telnet is NOT VT100 compatible.
Bill
1:40 p.m.
Bill/Carolyn Pechter wrote:
Or try another operating system. I've never had a problem with telnet
Ok, how come
when I'm using a windows95 based telnet client I get all
sorts of wacky-assed errors when I'm using PINE, like "Folder closed due
to access error" and "Folder reduced to 0 bytes" and "error
this" and
"error that". Basically stuff I never get when I'm using ProComm Plus.
Why is this? Why is a bug-free telnet session such a chore under Windows?
This is not just with the lame windows telnet either. I thought getting
CRT would clear this up but it happens with that too. What's going on
here? Any help would be greatly apprciated, especially in private e-mail.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
Try another telnet... Take a look at www.tucows.org at TeraTerm Pro...
or the upgrade to Hilgraeve's terminal emulator that ships with windows.
The Microsoft Telnet is NOT VT100 compatible. from this (or any other) Linux box. (Yes, at the
moment I'm using [the
Linux version of] Netscape for mail, since all ASCII mail
programs puke
on the crap attached to spam [PINE is more forgiving than most, but I
really really hate the program for other reasons -- give me ELM], but I
generally have a telnet session an alt-key over doing something else --
not counting the local activity I have the box doing, like providing my
wife most of her net access). If I'm reading my mail away from the
console in the basement, it's likely from a serial-linked terminal
emulator pretending to be a VT-52. Vidtex on the TRS-80 Model 2, where
I'm trying to write a novel in my "spare" time, using my favorite word
processor, Scripsit 2.0, (c) 1980. You can still get 8" floppies from
Global.
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10 May
10 May
2:20 a.m.
New subject: Why Can't Microsoft do telnet right...
Bill/Carolyn Pechter wrote:
Or try another operating system.
Sure... if you're going to Unix. I've got FreeBSD, NetBSD and Linux running
here along with OS/2. I haven't seen anything other than screen that gave
you VT100 from Linux. OS/2, of course, gives very good vt100 emulation
with it's TCP/IP. Microsoft doesn't give a @!#$%^&.
Real vt100 emulation is a need if you try to talk to REAL DEC operating
systems. Try running EDT on a bad emulator in keypad mode 8-(
Try talking to DEC's RT11 KED or K52 with the MS emulator (ugh).
I'm forced to use WinNT/Win95 for some work (I do dual boot into
either FreeBSD or OS/2 where I can at work). VT100 should be fairly easy
for MS to do. Most shareware does it better. (My $15.00 Quarterdec internet
suite disk in the Computer City cheap pile works great and is very compatible.)
I'm using the PCVT driver with FreeBSD which is more VT100/VT220 compatible
than the standard console driver which looks like a SCO ansi console.
Bill
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Ok, how
come when I'm using a windows95 based telnet client I get all
sorts of wacky-assed errors when I'm using PINE, like "Folder closed due
to access error" and "Folder reduced to 0 bytes" and "error
this" and
"error that". Basically stuff I never get when I'm using ProComm Plus.
Why is this? Why is a bug-free telnet session such a chore under Windows?
This is not just with the lame windows telnet either. I thought getting
CRT would clear this up but it happens with that too. What's going on
here? Any help would be greatly apprciated, especially in private e-mail.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
Try another telnet... Take a look at www.tucows.org at TeraTerm Pro...
or the upgrade to Hilgraeve's terminal emulator that ships with windows.
The Microsoft Telnet is NOT VT100 compatible.
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