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From: drk@athena.mit.edu (David R Kohr)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Problem with CONFIGTEL environment variable in NCSA Telnet.
Summary: Problem solved: use CONFIG.TEL environment variable instead.
Keywords: CONFIGTEL, ftpbin, telbin, lpr/lpq/lprm
Message-ID: <1990Oct31.162520.27921@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 31 Oct 90 16:25:20 GMT
References: <1990Oct31.012737.13681@athena.mit.edu>
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In article <1990Oct31.012737.13681@athena.mit.edu> drk@athena.mit.edu (David R Kohr) writes:
>I'm trying to install the latest version of NCSA Telnet, and I've hit
>a snag: even if I set the CONFIGTEL environment variable to point
>to my Telnet configuration file, like this:
>
>	set CONFIGTEL=C:\NCSA\CONFIG.TEL
>
>the various programs (ftpbin, telbin, finger, rexec, and the lpr utilities)
>seem to ignore it totally, so that if I run any of them outside of the

I have received several very helpful replies to my query.  It turns out
that the environment variable examined by these utilities is CONFIG.TEL
in version 2.3, as opposed to CONFIGTEL in version 2.2.  A very careful
perusal of the bug fix list revealed that this was the case, although
the README for version 2.3 didn't mention this.

Thanks to:

	Russell Mosemann <mosemann@hoss.unl.edu>
	james@engrss2.unl.edu (James Nau)

	and

	koziol@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Quincey Koziol)

for providing very prompt and helpful responses.

Dave

PS  (To the people at NCSA) Roughly when will a non-beta version of 2.3 
Telnet be coming out?  It's a really nice package; if a few of the rough
edges (like documentation) get smoothed over, that would make it even
better.

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