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From: jkain@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Jeff Kain)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: NCSA Telnet dies on Portable?
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.022059.10488@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: 27 Feb 91 02:20:59 GMT
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radee@sontar.mcs.anl.gov (Soochon Radee) writes:

>My friend also has a Portable and had problems running telnet. After many
>attempts, we finally found the correct method to use it. You have to use
>MacsBug. When telnet loads up, it gives undefined A-trap errors. We just
>typed "g"-- go repeatedly until the session opened. It usually takes about
>four tries. Our theory is that it may need to wake up the serial port or
>something similar. This method works for both LocalTalk and MacTCP versions.

Maybe this works, but Telnet v. 2.4b8 works fine without this (bad)
hack.  I don't know what the original problem was, but v. 2.3 did not
work on our Portable with a Compatible Systems' Ether+ adapter, and
MacTCP v.1.0.  I upgraded MacTCP to v. 1.0.1 and also changed the
config.tel hardware line from Ether to EtherSC.  Still didn't work w/
2.3.

I installed v. 2.4 and everything worked properly.  So it may have
just been the difference in versions of Telnet, or it may have been
any combination of the above.

I don't know where you get the new Telnet, but I'll be happy to mail
it to anyone who requests it.  It is still beta.

Jeff

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