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From: akm@cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: WinQVT/NET 1.5 problem SOLVED
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.203359.12677@cs.uoregon.edu>
Date: 14 Mar 91 20:33:59 GMT
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In article <1991Mar14.171203.21635@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib) writes:
>Hmmmm... this is getting more and more perplexing. A
>friend of mine has a QVT_TCP.RC with about 15 hosts,
>and his works fine! He says he had to delete all the 
>comments to get it to work. Well, I tried that and 
>still got the errors, which I could get to dissapear 
>deleting the hosts one by one until it worked. Strange!

It is possible that the problems with qvtnet 1.5 are related to the
qvt_tcp.rc file that came with qvtnet 1.5. One of the things I didn't
mention about fixing my problems was that I went back to the .rc file
that came with 1.3, and typed in the stuff that seemed important from
1.5. I recall someone else saying that the line that makes sessions
automatically start has a bug in it (missing underline character.) I
have >15 hosts in my .rc, and it works.

I do find, however, that qvtnet is flaky, and will crash at times (esp
during ftp/anonymous ftp transfers). This seems to screw up the packet
driver, because qvtnet will not run ater that, saying that it can't
find the packet driver. The only way I can get it to work after that
is to reboot my machine. Pain, to say the least. 

>By the way, I've discovered another annoying trait. In
>emacs, I now have to type ctrl-shift-2 to get a mark 
>set. In Telnet a simple ctrl-2 worked fine. 

this might have something to do with the way the keyboard driver in
windows works. I have actually, always used ctrl-shift-2, because the
mark character is ctrl-@...

>Paste to VMS machines still doesn't work. Is there a 
>way to get Windows to slow down its paste routine?

Paste does work under unix, though I haven't tried any large pastes.

kartik



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Anant Kartik Mithal                                     akm@cs.uoregon.edu
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