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From: steve@OTTO.BF.RMIT.OZ.AU (Steve Iatropoulos)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Windows and NCSA Telnet - unholy marrriage?
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Date: 23 Nov 90 00:39:53 GMT
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    Let me first apologize for the length of this query but i think this
    problem may start cropping up more and more as people start using
    MSWindows3.0

    I have recently installed Windows 3.0 and I must say i am impressed with it.
    Hoevere I really do need to get NCSA to work reliably with it.  I experience
    the following strange behaviour:
		
	1) On occasions when i exit NCSA telnet, Windows decides to die with it,
	   sometimes gracefully, sometimes very very ungracefully.

	2) When I put NCSA telnet into the background, and then return to it,
	   some -not all- of the sessions unexpectantly close (gracefully) as
	   if I logged out myself.  

	3) Worst of all, is when I put NCSA telnet in the background, 
	   start up some applications in Windows and then attempt to return 
	   to NCSA I get an out of memory error.  Funny thing is, when i 
	   query the Program manager I have something like 10Mg free and 
	   65% resources free.  Nevertheless, quitting all the applications in 
	   Windows still wont free the memory I need to get NCSA going.

      In defence to NCSA, i think most of the problems arise from the way 
      i have specified my PIF for Telnet.  I allocate 128kb and i give it 640k
      (if desired).  I have cleared the detect idle flag and have put the 
      exclusive flag on (oh yeah I have set the -w flag when i start the 
      packet driver - but that goes with out saying).  Is there anything
      else i can do to obtain a more stable behaviour from NCSA?

     I think Windows is great (for the DOS world) and I really want to give
     it a shot.

     Thanx for your time,
     Steve

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