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From: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield;232HMB;3-6292;;MF62)
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Subject: Re: NCSA Telnet & System 7
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Date: 27 Jun 91 16:02:21 GMT
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In article <79531@brunix.UUCP> man@cs.brown.edu (Mark H. Nodine) writes:
#>I'm sure this went by while I wasn't looking, but I can't seem to
#>get NCSA Telnet 2.2 or 2.3 to work with System 7.  2.2 crashes with
#>a message saying "Unimplemented trap" and 2.3 just doesn't connect
#>(message is "Host or gateway not responding") if I choose the Open
#>Connection menu item or crashes with the "Unimplemented trap" if I
#>try to open an NCSA Telnet startup document.  Is there a version that
#>is compatible?  The "How to Install System 7" document by John Norstad
#>refers to a file called "Mac TCP" that I can't seem to find.  Is that
#>the problem?
#>
#>	--Mark

First, the 2.3 MacTCP version does run. System 7
installation moves MacTCP--which you must have--to your
control panel folder. In order to get Telnet 2.3 or 2.4
to work, you have to move it back to the system folder
(and alias it to the control panel folder if you want
control panel access). The only incompatibility with
2.3 is that while you are running NCSA Telnet 2.3-MacTCP,
the Apple Menu items don't work, selecting one just causes
a beep. I'm not sure, but I don't think the version of
2.3 with built-in MacTCP will work in system 7. In any
case, NCSA is no longer supporting that version, so it
only makes good sense to switch. (Apparently, Apple will
be issuing a new and improved version of MacTCP sometime
in the near future.)

Version 2.4 is still beta testing (it's currently in its
12th beta version) and can be ftp'ed from ncsa. (I don't
have the ftp address in front of me, but it's something
like zaphod.uiuc.edu.) I've been using 2.4b11 for some
time on both system 7 and system 6 with no problems.

If you have trouble finding any of these files, I suggest
you go to whomever gave you NCSA Telnet in the first place.

Steve Goldfield
College of Engineering
UC Berkeley