Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!well!svc 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) Distribution: usa Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA Lines: 26 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) -- +--------------------------------------------------+ Leonard Rosenthol | GEnie : MACgician Lazerware, inc. | MacNet: MACgician UUCP: svc@well.UUCP | ALink : D0025