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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!uunet!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!utcsri!newsflash.concordia.ca!nstn.ns.ca!PHoward.StMarys.CA!PHILIP From: PHILIP@shark.stmarys.ca (Philip Howard (Computer Services)) Subject: Re: Telnet terminal problems w/386BSD Message-ID: <PHILIP.34.736789260@shark.stmarys.ca> Lines: 39 Sender: usenet@nstn.ns.ca (NNTP Entity) Organization: Saint Mary's University References: <1sa5rc$9r9@lobster.sid.mcet.edu> Date: Fri, 7 May 1993 15:41:00 GMT In article <1sa5rc$9r9@lobster.sid.mcet.edu> johnj@lobster.sid.mcet.edu (John Jackson) writes: >From: johnj@lobster.sid.mcet.edu (John Jackson) >Subject: Telnet terminal problems w/386BSD >Date: 6 May 1993 04:57:16 GMT >Hi: > > I have 386BSD 0.1 patch level 0.2.1. Telnetting in to the 386BSD >box can be dicey. I'm not exeriencing EXACTLY these same problems, but an old TELNET from Clarkson installed on our Novell system fails to connect at all (no login prompt) and NCSA telnet connects properly 1/3 of the time. The rest of the time NCSA echos everything locally in two annoying ways... login: philip philip password: secretword secretword % --or-- login: philip password: /* no echo, as it should be */ secretword % I've "solved" the problem by using Kermit or by using TELNET from a different system like VAX/VMS Multinet. On my Mac (I'm "bi" =|-) I found that NCSA Telnet would lock up when it scrolled quickly through several screenfuls of text eg; % man -c something. The connection wouldn't drop, but the session would hang. Again, there were so many variables I just gave up trying to isolate the problem. I'm currently at patchlevel 0.2.3, but I haven't checked the Mac problem since 0.1 Philip