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From: ephraim@think.COM (ephraim vishniac)
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Subject: Re: using ncsa telnet under multifinder
Keywords: ncsa telnet multifinder
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Date: 10 Jun 88 13:45:16 GMT
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In article <199@chemres.ccs.cornell.edu> lynch@chemres.ccs.cornell.edu (Tim Lynch) writes:
>Has anyone else seen problems with the ncsa telnet/mulitfinder combo?

Yes.  We're running NCSA Telnet 2.1.  On startup, what should be the
"About" box comes up blank under multifinder.  This doesn't give me
warm feelings.  With or without multifinder, there are occasional
problems with copy and paste.  The pasted material is sometimes
garbage unrelated to what was copied.

More seriously, ftp doesn't seem very robust.  Even without
multifinder, we've had problems with corrupt transfers.  Most
insidious was the gratuitous insertion of 11 bytes of junk into a 10
megabyte ASCII file.  To be fair, this might be a problem with our
Kinetics gateway.  Retransmitting during a low traffic period gave us
a clean copy.

>If so, does the MPW version of ncsa telnet correct this problem?

Another poster mentioned a version 2.2b.  Is this a new general
release?  From where can I ftp it?

Ephraim Vishniac					  ephraim@think.com
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