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From: conrad@popvax.uucp (M20400@c.nobili)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: NCSA Telnet 2.4b11
Summary: 2.4b11 launches fines from a saved set, BUT...
Keywords: NCSA Telnet 2.4b11 MacTCP saved session bug
Message-ID: <6817@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 19 May 91 05:38:35 GMT
References: <1991May9.173511.8909@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991May17.034331.27876@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
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In article <1991May17.034331.27876@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> park@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Yongsup Park) writes:
>In article <1991May9.173511.8909@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> sbulmahn@yoyodyne.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Dr Thrasher) writes:
>>
>>NCSA Telnet version 2.4b11 is now available on anonymous ftp from 
>>zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu.  This version fixes the problem with TEK images not 
>
>This version can't be launced from a saved set.
>Is there any other trick or just a plain bug ?

Hmmm.  I have been launching 2.4b11 (MacTCP) from saved sets since the day Scott
posted his notice.  I suspect there might be something else going on....  One
kind of weird and disturbing thing that I noticed might shed some light....

Here at home I have a monster E-Machines Z21 monitor set at 80dpi.  At this
resolution I have 1280 x 960 = 1,228,800 pixels.  You get the idea, big.  I have
a telnet set saved for popvax.harvard.edu which is 24 x 80 Courier 18pt.  (I use
Liaison to establish a _network_ connection from home....)  (I would LIKE to be
able to use _other_ fonts and _larger_ font sizes, but this seems to be a low
priority bug in telnet, as it has been around for many versions....)  I have my
telnet session along the bottom of my screen, and a tn3270 session at the top.
The saved sets and settings remember this day to day without any problems.

Here is the interesting part.  With 2.4b11, all of a sudden I noticed that when
I was firing up the popvax set on the SE/30 at work without an external monitor,
it was taking a _real_ long time to open a session.  In fact, longer than I get
before telnet gives up and presents a dialog when there are network problems.
(Oh yeah, I have an iDS Wip 120 MB (very) portable drive, which is why I was 
using the same telnet set....)  Needless to say I was looking curiously in the
Connections menu, and noticed that in fact it looked like I had a session open.
The check mark next to the name tipped me off....

So, it seems that my saved session was opening up OFF SCREEN!  The location of
my window _right now_ is in fact beyond the reach of the pixels of a "classic"
screen.  It sure seems like someone forgot something....  (In the past, the ses-
sion would simply come up in a smaller font in a window scaled appropriately for
the tiny screen....)

>>If you are interested, please take the time to upgrade to this version, 
>>and let us know how it goes.  Any bug reports/comments should be sent to:
>>mactelnet@ncsa.uiuc.edu
>
>Mail bounces.

_I_ am lazy.  And besides, they probably read this newsgroup.

>-- 
>Yongsup Park                 / park@casbah.acns.nwu.edu / Man can apprehend 
>Physics and Astronomy Dept. / park@anmsd3.msd.anl.gov  / things beyond the pale
>Northwestern University    / B40180@ANLCV1.BITNET     / of his imagination.
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