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From: svc@well.UUCP (Leonard Rosenthol)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: NCSA Telnet on Mac Portable
Summary: It's definately a bug!
Keywords: telnet Mac portable
Message-ID: <13899@well.UUCP>
Date: 2 Oct 89 16:37:12 GMT
References: <1989Sep29.014147.12921@agate.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: svc@well.UUCP (Leonard Rosenthol)
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Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In article <1989Sep29.014147.12921@agate.berkeley.edu> austins@violet.berkeley.edu (Austin Shelton) writes:
>I recently tested NCSA telnet version 2.2 and version 2.3 (ordinary and
>MacTCP versions of the latter) on the new Macintosh portable.  I was
>unable to get them to work - they caused a System Error 12.  Strangely,
>tn3270 from Brown worked perfectly OK.
>
>Has anyone had any experience with this and advice to offer?
>
	You have discovered the same thing that the author of NCSA Telnet did
this week, that neither NCSA Telnet nor his commerical TCP/Connect work ont
the Portable.
	It turns out that there was some code in there (which goes back a WHILE)
concerning color tables which is what is killing the portable. What's wierd is
that it should also be killing the plus and SE...
	It has been fixed in TCP/Connect and the change has been wired to the
folks at NCSA to make the change there as well, so I assume a new version, or
patched version, will be available soon.

(Why tn3270 works is probably because the problem was in the terminal code and
tn3270 does it's own terminal handling)

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