Bill/Carolyn Pechter wrote:
> > Ok, how come when I'm using a windows95 based telnet client I get all
> > sorts of wacky-assed errors when I'm using PINE, like "Folder closed due
> > to access error" and "Folder reduced to 0 bytes" and "error this" and
> > "error that". Basically stuff I never get when I'm using ProComm Plus.
> > Why is this? Why is a bug-free telnet session such a chore under Windows?
> > This is not just with the lame windows telnet either. I thought getting
> > CRT would clear this up but it happens with that too. What's going on
> > here? Any help would be greatly apprciated, especially in private e-mail.
> >
> > Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
>
> Try another telnet... Take a look at www.tucows.org at TeraTerm Pro...
> or the upgrade to Hilgraeve's terminal emulator that ships with windows.
> The Microsoft Telnet is NOT VT100 compatible.
Or try another operating system. I've never had a problem with telnet
from this (or any other) Linux box. (Yes, at the moment I'm using [the
Linux version of] Netscape for mail, since all ASCII mail programs puke
on the crap attached to spam [PINE is more forgiving than most, but I
really really hate the program for other reasons -- give me ELM], but I
generally have a telnet session an alt-key over doing something else --
not counting the local activity I have the box doing, like providing my
wife most of her net access). If I'm reading my mail away from the
console in the basement, it's likely from a serial-linked terminal
emulator pretending to be a VT-52. Vidtex on the TRS-80 Model 2, where
I'm trying to write a novel in my "spare" time, using my favorite word
processor, Scripsit 2.0, (c) 1980. You can still get 8" floppies from
Global.
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
Received on Fri May 08 1998 - 20:40:52 BST