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From: kai@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: NCSA Telnet with WD8003A PS/2 card
Message-ID: <17800001@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu>
Date: 26 Dec 88 20:43:00 GMT
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> /* Written by andchan@ccu.umanitoba.ca */
> I've tried out the modified NCSA Telnet and it basically work fine.  Thanks!
> I do have a problem though.  When downloading a large file from a Sun 4
> to the PC, the PC will take in the first few trunks and then hangs.

We had the same problem with NCSA PC Telnet on our Compaq 386/20 using a 3COM
3C501 transferring files that were over 40 Kb to the PC from any of our
super-minis.  The folks at NCSA that I spoke with told me that it must be our
hardware, because they had not had complaints about this from anyone else,
but card swapping with a different PC, and changing software parameters
didn't help.

I also tried PCIP, the TCP/IP software for PC's.  The version I got was
written in C, and worked fine, except that it came with TFTP instead of FTP.
This was the only reason we didn't keep it very long.

We eventually solved this problem by purchasing Sun's PC/NFS product.  Sun's
FTP works without problems, and we like and use the other features it
provides (network disk, spooling to UNIX printer queues).  I still prefer the
user interface of the telnet program from NCSA to the one provided by Sun.


Patrick Wolfe  (pat@kai.com, kailand!pat)
System Manager, Kuck and Associates, Inc.