Subject: NCSA Telnet Digest Vol II - Issue 8 -------------------------------------------------- NCSA Telnet Digest Wednesday, 27 May 1988 Volume 2 : Issue 8 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Pyro and NCSA Telent Two TCP/IP's in one Mac? Automated Login Scripts ------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 01 May 88 14:09:19 EDT From: Ike Nassi- Encore Computer Corporation I know this has been reported before, but either there was no acknowledgment, or I missed it. Here's the problem: Occasionally, my SE running multifinder, hangs in the middle of a telnet session. I'm running the Kinetics Etherport SE, and inits like Suitcase and MFMenu. I was running Pyro for a screen saver, but noticed the hangs were more frequent when Pyro kicked in. I also tried autoblack, but had the same experience. I also run Powerstation. Other things that cause hangs are heavy floppy use, and background printing. All this led us to try fiddling with "keepalive" in our telnet demon, but that after turning keepalive off, there was no observable effect. The theory was that the processor wasn't able to respond quickly enough to keepalive messages, and so the host was dropping the connection. That now doesn't seem to be the case. The host is (of course) and Encore Multimax, running the Mach OS. We observe the same problematic behavior on (UMAX) 4.2 BSD. Any thoughts on this one? --- Ike Nassi -------------------------------- Date: 13 May 88 12:14 -0700 From: Richard Cline Subject: suggested improvements I've been using NCSA telnet version 2.0 and quite like it (especially the 4014 emulation). I'd like to suggest a couple of improvements: 1) The zooming is ackward to use. It would be alot nicer if the cursers could be used to define the region to be zoomed, 2) Panning would also be nice, 3) Support of a remote printer spooler would be very useful, and 4) I like rlogin better than telnet in a UNIX environment because it tells the remote system the terminal type whereas telnet doesn't. If this can't be added to telnet then a version of rlogin is desirable. If there is a newer version of telnet available, please let me know. Thanks. Richard Cline Dept of Physics University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC ------------------------------- Date: Wed, 25 May 88 15:01:56 PDT From: Bill Yeager Subject: Two applications using IP I'm not sure how the stuff is layered but I understand that if one application is using IP, then a second application is blocked from doing so. At least if we run MacIP (a Stanford IP package), then we cannot run NCSA telnet, and vice versa. Is this a feature of how this stuff works, or just a bug in the implementations? Thanks for any info or documentation pointers, Bill [ Ed. Note - [ The reason for this is that the Mac has no standard TCP/IP yet and [ since there is no good IPC, it is nearly impossible for programs to [ share low levels. Because of this, and the fact that TCP/IP requires [ listening to particular protocol addresses, the Mac can only run one [ TCP/IP at a time... [ - Gaige ] --------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 29 Apr 88 14:16:51 CDT From: root@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Operator) Subject: File input to NCSA telnet/ftp I have a user who wants to automate the login portion of his telnet/ftp sessions so that his program can use telnet/ftp to connect to another machine without human intervention. Can this be done with the 2.1 distribution stuff? David +======== David Linn ===================================================+ |INET: drl@vuse.vanderbilt.edu [129.59.100.1] | |UUCP: ...!uunet!vuse!drl CSNET: drl@vanderbilt.csnet | |AT&T: (615)322-7924 BITNET: linndr@vuengvax | |USPS: P.O. Box 1824, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA, 37235 | +======== "I can sing louder than you" - T. S. `Dr. Seuss' Geisel ======+