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From: cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson [Animal])
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Running NCSA Telnet under A/UX
Message-ID: <25558@fs2.NISC.SRI.COM>
Date: 16 Jan 91 03:20:20 GMT
References: <1991Jan7.180306.11264@athena.mit.edu>
Organization: Network Info Systems Ctr., SRI Intl., Menlo Park, CA.
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hbh@athena.mit.edu (Heidi Hammel) writes:

>I'm writing to you all via NCSA Telnet running under A/UX 2.0 ....   :)
[...]
>Some other comments......

>Francisco DeJesus said: "You don't need to run NCSA Telnet; just open a 
>command window and run regular unix telnet."   Welllll, yes and no.  That 
>does work, sort of.  But certain commands don't work under regular telnet.  
>For example, when I type "rn" (to read news),  I get the error message "no 
>termcap entry found." Under NCSA telnet, "rn" works fine.  So the defaults 
>for regular telnet are not correct (I guess).  Also, under NCSA Telnet I 
>can easily define the location and color of my windows to other machines. 
>The key word in that sentence is "easily."  I'm sometimes logged into three 
>different machines at once, and it helps to have them color coded.

hmm, can't help with the color issue, (other than running xterms, heh),
but my solution to the "no termcap entry found" was the addition of the
mac2 termcap entry to the destination machine's /etc/termcap.  Nice,
clean, simple, and goes away when you upgrade those machines.  Ooops.

>I don't have any manual which has a Chapter 9 "Setting up accounts and
>peripherals in A/UX."   :-(  I also don't have the A/UX Command reference 

Myself, I'd like to see a 'useful things to do and know concerning
a/ux' short pamphlet thingy.  Like, how to show bootup messages, how
to add routes to the route tables, how to disable this, how to enable
that, the best (and only) place for 3 button mice for use with X
windows, that sort of thing.  Some stuff that is scattered around the
manuals, and some stuff that is scattered around the net...

well, just my piece of the kernel...

--Chan
Chan Wilson                                  Chief Hard-Question Answer Person
SRI Intl. Network Information Systems Center
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