NCSA Telnet Digest   Friday, March 31, 1989   Volume 2 : Issue 21
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BITNET subscribers will probably find this is the first message from
this list in a while.  We have recently corrected a problem with our
mailer to BITNET addresses. - Tim K.

Subjects:
	Multinet compatibility
	3270 emulator compatibility problems?
	Appletalk driver for PC version.

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From: adelman@TGV.COM (Kenneth Adelman)

> The following is from NCSA Telnet 2.2's buglist:

> Wollongong or MultiNet on VAX/VMS - These TCP implementations can drop
> characters when delivering keyboard input to your login process.  When
> pasting characters in Mac Telnet, NCSA Telnet often overruns the host's
> buffers and characters are lost.  TCP delivers each and every character,
> but some are dropped on the host side.  The workaround is to only paste
> smaller amounts of text.

    One of our customers reported this comment in your documentation
to us. It isn't entirely correct.

    Under MultiNet if you overrun the keyboard input buffer characters
are indeed dropped if your terminal is set /NOHOSTSYNC (the usual
default).  If your terminal is set /HOSTSYNC when the buffer fills,
the network stops shoving characters down it and waits for it to
drain, allowing you to 'paste' larger amounts of text. The usual
semantics of /HOSTSYNC is whether the VAX should use ^S/^Q flow
control to slow down a terminal which is sending too fast, and I think
the mapping of /HOSTSYNC to control network flow control is only
natural.

    This is fixed in Version 2.0 of our product. Customers who have
the problem under Version 1.0 should contact me about receiving an
update.  I have no reason to believe that this is fixed in the
Wollongong implementation (we fixed it independently).

						Kenneth Adelman
						TGV, Incorporated

[
When we posted the buglist, I don't think Multinet 2.0 existed.
I think it is quite appropriate to map ^S/^Q to this setting.  As a
user, I want all characters delivered all of the time.  Tim K.]

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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 89 09:06:39 CST
From: timk (Tim Krauskopf)
Subject: Sun's 3270 SunLINK

I am very interested in hearing from users of 3270 products, such as
Sun's 3270 product.  If you have problems using NCSA Telnet as a remote
terminal for use with a Sun-based 3270 product, please let me know.
My reports have been that the telnet application crashes with a bomb ID=01
or other bomb when you select Quit, but rarely crashes while running.

I would like to get a uuencoded dump of one of these sessions so that I
may track down this reported bug.

Tim Krauskopf
NCSA


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The posted AppleTalk driver for NCSA Telnet for the PC has been updated.
It has now been tested over the Kinetics gateway software.  I have had
reports of problems with FTP and ping though.  Please let me know what
your experience has been.
in NCSA_Telnet/contributions

Tim Krauskopf
NCSA