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From: ssw@ogre.cica.indiana.edu (Steve Wallace)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows and NCSA Telnet
Message-ID: <1991Feb18.203504.13587@cica.indiana.edu>
Date: 18 Feb 91 20:35:04 GMT
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In <1991Feb18.150343.16694@aucs.AcadiaU.ca> paul@aucs.AcadiaU.ca (Paul Steele) writes:


>I have been trying to NCSA Telnet 2.3b14 running under Windows 3.0 with
>marginal success.  If the application is set to exclusive mode using full
>screen and never put in the background, it seems to run OK.  However, if
>the program is put into the background into to run another program, the
>system usually crashes very quickly and very thoroughly. We don't want
>to have to quit Telnet everytime since that defeats the purpose of
>MS Windows.  Does anyone out there have any experience with this problem
>and can offer a solution?  Thanks.

If you are using the packet drivers, you need to use the -w
windows switch.  It's only available on recent version of the
packet driver (post 7.0 I think).

Steven Wallace
ssw@silver.ucs.indiana.edu