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From: akk2@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Atul Kacker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Communications s/w
Keywords: Comms, Kinetics Fastpath, NCSA Telnet
Message-ID: <1114@ur-cc.UUCP>
Date: 14 Mar 89 00:06:57 GMT
References: <776@oracle.oracle.com>
Reply-To: akk2@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Atul Kacker)
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Organization: University of Rochester
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In article <776@oracle.oracle.com> omullarn@oracle.com (Oliver Mullarney) writes:
>We have been having some problems with NSCA Telnet communications software.
>We are running a number of Macs over phonenet linked into an ethernet
>network via a Kinetics Fastpath box.
>Problem is that Telnet seems to be riddled with bugs - crashes the Mac like
>there was no tomorrow. It also does weird things to the keyboard. 

That's strange.  We use NCSA Telnet over a Phonenet/Kinetics connection and
haven't encountered any of the "bugs" you mention.  We use it on Mac+'s, 
Mac SE's and Mac II with several zones on our global network and have yet to
see the system crashing "like there was no tomorrow".  What version of the
system software are you using and what version of Telnet?  

>I would be
>happier using VersaTerm or Red Ryder or some such (reliable) terminal emulator.
                                                   
I'm sorry but Red Ryder doesn't do anywhere as decent job of terminal emulation
as Telnet.


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