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From: humtech@ucschu (Mark Frost)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Troubles with NCSA Telnet 2.1
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Date: 8 Jul 88 17:48:44 GMT
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We are having difficulty with Telnet 2.1 for the Mac. Our primary use for it
is to use our UNIX machine (ISI V16) via our Kbox.
Our problem is this: Control Characters (specifically the most often used ones
like ^C, ^S and ^Q) don't seem to work. Well, actually they sort of work. If
I see a lot of text streaming across the screen and I hit ^S to halt the flow
or even ^C to interrupt, nothing happens until at least 4 or 5 more screensfull
of text go by and then MAYBE ^S or ^C will take effect. Most of the time the
stuff that I scroll past is less than 5 pages, so a ^C or ^S will not ever
have a chance to work. In this sense it seems as if they don't work at all.
Our regular terminals don't have this problem. I don't totally understand the
way that information is sent back and forth between the Mac-Kbox-UNIX, but it
seems to me that these characters shouldn't take anywhere near that amount of
time to work (when they do).

I looked in the Telnet documentation and found no reference to any problem like
this, and I didn't see a reference to this problem in the "bugs" section either.

Has anyone else had similar problems?

Your help is greatly appreciated...


Mark Frost (humtech@ucschu.UCSC.EDU)

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