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From: ROMKEY@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU (John Romkey)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Ethernet software options
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Date: 15 Apr 88 06:09:55 GMT
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Ethernet has its own separate hardware, and it's not supported by MS-DOS or
BIOS at all. It doesn't look at all like a serial port (COM1 or whatever)
to the PC.

FTP Software's PC/TCP has a special version of telnet, glass telnet, that
was designed to help with the problem of using different terminal emulators.
Glass telnet just passes everything through to the DOS stdout device
when it gets data from the net, rather than trying to emulate a terminal
itself. So if you can convince DOS to emulate a terminal on stdout, then
glass telnet will emulate that same terminal since it's not doing any
of the work itself.

An easy terminal to emulate is an ANSI terminal; install ANSI.SYS in your
\CONFIG.SYS file and then glass telnet will act like an ANSI terminal.
So you'll have to have a special TEK4010 emulator that can install itself
as the DOS console device. The one particular emulator that I know of,
and which I know works with PC/TCP because people are using it, is
a package sold by Grafpoint, but I don't know their address or phone
number or where they're located...
				- john romkey
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