Search Again: Re: Telnet to BSDI still not working From: Shawn Hogan Date: Tuesday, July 21, 1998 Time: 1:12:14 pm Bill Warner wrote: >For one thing, they probably set the terminal type during negotiation, that >way tset won't prompt for it later. Yep... That's exactly what it's doing (and what I tried to do with the new telscrpt.exe file). But it didn't like it... so that's why I want to see what else they are doing. :-) >Yeah, IMO that's not necessarily a bad option. After all, your original >telnet client *does* work, and this is as much, if not more, a shell >account config. issue as a telnet issue. Maybe so... but I would rather have it just "work" then explain to people how to change their shell account config. :-) >Heh, I know that feeling, but we can't all be experts at everything... I know, I know... I'm just used to being the best at what I do. hehehehe... (that was a little joke). hehe >Ugly and unnecessary. All they have to do is configure the shell account >not to prompt, or configure Optigold-ISP to answer the "Terminal type?" >prompt. Trivial. You wouldn't blame your telnet client if someone had >their shell account configured to use S/Key logins and failed to set >Opigold-ISP to give the correct responses, would you? As far as I can see, >this is the same thing. People have their accounts configured to prompt >for something (terminal type) and they are not supplying the correct >response. > >*** Keep in mind that all of this applies to your *old* telnet client. I >haven't had a chance to DL the new one... Well I still want to make it "just work" without any shell configuration. :-) - Shawn ------------------------------- Shawn D. Hogan President, Data Point Solutions http://www.data-point.com (619) 452-3696 ICQ: 8319647

Messages In This Thread: Telnet to BSDI still not working by Serge Pluess on Jul 20, 1998 at 3:13:26 pm Re: Telnet to BSDI still not working by Shawn Hogan on Jul 20, 1998 at 4:12:32 pm Re: Telnet to BSDI still not working by Graeme Easton on Jul 20, 1998 at 6:04:46 pm Re: Telnet to BSDI still not working by Graeme Easton on Jul 20, 1998 at 6:45:11 pm Re: Telnet to BSDI still not working by Shawn Hogan on Jul 20, 1998 at 7:15:29 pm Re: Telnet to BSDI still not working by Graeme Easton on Jul 20, 1998 at 8:15:25 pm Re: Telnet to BSDI still not working by Graeme Easton on Jul 20, 1998 at 8:31:12 pm Re: Telnet to BSDI still not working by Shawn Hogan on Jul 20, 1998 at 8:39:32 pm Re: Telnet to BSDI still not working by Serge Pluess on Jul 20, 1998 at 10:27:22 pm Re: Telnet to BSDI still not working by Shawn Hogan on Jul 20, 1998 at 11:07:39 pm Re: Telnet to BSDI still not working by Graeme Easton on Jul 21, 1998 at 4:52:00 am Re: Telnet to BSDI still not working by Bill Warner on Jul 21, 1998 at 11:00:00 am Re: Telnet to BSDI still not working by Shawn Hogan on Jul 21, 1998 at 11:32:11 am Re: Telnet to BSDI still not working by Bill Warner on Jul 21, 1998 at 12:55:47 pm Re: Telnet to BSDI still not working by Shawn Hogan on Jul 21, 1998 at 1:12:14 pm Re: Telnet to BSDI still not working by Serge Pluess on Jul 21, 1998 at 1:49:10 pm Re: Telnet to BSDI still not working by Shawn Hogan on Jul 21, 1998 at 2:09:51 pm Re: Telnet to BSDI still not working by Jesse Trucks on Jul 21, 1998 at 2:30:23 pm Re: Telnet to BSDI still not working by Jesse Trucks on Jul 21, 1998 at 2:40:36 pm