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From: margan-aleks@cs.yale.edu (margan-aleks)
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Subject: Re: NCSA Telnet hangs my system
Keywords: TELNET, Windows
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Date: 9 Nov 90 20:25:52 GMT
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In article <273AF6CC.476@orion.oac.uci.edu> bhudack@orion.oac.uci.edu (Bob Hudack) writes:
>----
>I'm running Windows on an AST Premium 386 with 4MB. After the usual amount of
>fussing, I got Windows up and running, along with non-Windows apps, etc.
>
>Everything works great EXCEPT Telnet.  It starts all right, but freezes my PC
>within a minute after I start it.  Often the screen goes blank.
>
>Win/QVT NET works great, but I have to support users who do data entry and want
>the larger standard screen type that Telnet uses.
>
>If it makes any difference, I'm using a packet driver and am also connected
>to a Novell network.  I thought setting BIOS=YES in my config file would take
>care of the problem, but it didn't.
>
>Telnet works great outside of Windows.  Any ideas?  PIF or CONFIG.TEL settings?
>Any help you can give will be greatly appreciated.
>-- 
>Bob Hudack
>Microcomputer Services Group
>Computing Facility
>University of California, Irvine       RJHUDACK@UCI.BITNET

I had the same problem when loading the drivers before starting windows. By
creating a batch file that loads the drivers first and then starts NCSA Telnet
I solved my problem.  The sessions still die, however, when I leave them in-
active (i.e. make another window active) for more than 10 minutes.