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From: krauskpf@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Kinetics/NCSA problems
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Date: 17 Dec 87 18:10:00 GMT
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After this message was posted on usenet, Mike's message was posted with 
a reply on our telnet mailing list (telnet@ncsa.uiuc.edu).  This one showed up
on our notesfiles two weeks later, so here is the same answer.

Anyway, the answers are:
Yes, these things are generally fixed in version 2.1, except for the keyboard
problem.  We have been talking with Apple's technical people to see what
the fix is.  Anyone with the source code want to fix it and report back?

With Kinetic's products, the FastPath, EtherPort SE and EtherSC, the 
gateway software provided makes use of too many broadcast packets, especially
the Ether products.  Please inform Kinetics, as we have, that this is
unacceptable.  The soon to be released EtherTalk support from Kinetics, 
used with telnet 2.1E (EtherTalk version), lets NCSA Telnet go directly 
to the Ethernet and cause no extra broadcasts.  

Kinetics is now shipping version 2.1 with their products.

We don't rate our VT100 emulation on test programs, although we have used
test programs to help debug our code.  Do you have any applications which
fail under NCSA Telnet's VT102 emulation?  Would you care to report the
exact bug or contribute a source code modification?

For the keyboard, you can use the control panel to re-select your keyboard
when you exit NCSA Telnet instead of re-booting.


NCSA Telnet for the Macintosh (and PC) is available from:
Anonymous FTP from ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu (128.174.20.50).

Tim Krauskopf
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
timk@ncsa.uiuc.edu