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- *** Note, if you want to use Authentication/Encryption, you'll need to
- FTP to ftp.cit.cornell.edu:/pub/mac/kdriver, and pick up the
- Kerberos software there. ****
-
- *** I've included some KCHRs created by Matt Elliott to work around Apple's lack
- of a method for producing ctrl-@ or ctrl-^ with the standard KCHR ***
-
- NCSA Telnet 2.6 for the Macintosh release notes:
-
- Here are some quick notes to get you up to speed with the new version of NCSA
- Telnet. We have implemented many interface changes to make Telnet easier to
- use and configure.
-
- As of this date (3/28/94), the documentation for version 2.6 is in beta stage and
- may be FTP'd from ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu. The final documentation will be uploaded
- to the FTP server as soon as it is completed. A list of known bugs is appended
- to this file.
-
- Much has changed in Telnet 2.6. Here are a few quick notes to guide you
- through the new features and changes to existing features.
-
- New Configuration Scheme:
- Telnet now requires no external configuration files
- (i.e. config.tel and telpass/ftppass). All of the configuration options are
- accessed via the "Preferences" heir menu under the Edit menu. Following is a
- brief description of each configuration dialog(s).
-
- General Preferences Item:
- This item allows configuration of the preferences
- that are global to the application. It is much like the old preferences item
- in 2.5. The major change being the button to select the creator type for
- captured text files.
-
- FTP Preferences Item:
- The major additions to the FTP server configuration are
- as follows. The FTP server now has three modes: Off, Anonymous (On, but no
- passwords required), and Passwords (user login w/password required). You can
- set Telnet to open the FTP log window automatically on startup. You can also
- set the default creator type and filetype of files transfered in binary mode
- to the Mac when Macbinary is off. Selection of the creator type of text
- files transfered when Macbinary is off is allowed as well. If ISO
- translation is on, the names of the files transfered via FTP will be
- converted to or from the ISO text standard.
-
- FTP Users Preferences Item:
- This dialog is the replacement of our dear
- friend, Telpass. From here you can set users logins, passwords and two other
- options. You can set the default directory that a user is put in when he/she
- logs in to the FTP server.
-
- * A quick explanation of the theory behind the new configuration scheme for
- * hosts: Each connection to a host is a "session". Each "session" has
- * a preconfigured "terminal". For instance, you most likely will have
- * two to four terminal configurations you use often. One may by set up
- * for vi, with backspace being delete. One may be set up for vi with
- * backspace being backspace. And the other two may be set up for EMACS
- * with backspace being in either configuration. Thus, if for hosts you
- * often connect to that have backspace=delete. You would set up a session
- * for each, selecting the appropriate terminal configuration and making up
- * a short alias for that host. For the hosts that prefer backspace=
- * backspace, you would set those session configurations to use a different
- * preconfigured terminal.
-
- * The most important terminal and session configurations are "<Default>".
- * When you create a new terminal or session record, the parameters in
- * those records are initialized to whatever you have set up the "<Default>"
- * records to be. The "<Default>" records may not be deleted.
-
- Sessions Preferences Item:
- Allows you to edit "sessions". New options here include: inhibiting TEK
- screens, setting up the "localkeys", setting the default paste method,
- enabling the display of low level errors, a popup menu to select the terminal
- record associated with this session, and a popup menu to select the default
- translation method. Paste now has two modes, "quick" and "block". If quick
- is selected, all of the text to be pasted is sent at once. This is fine
- for hosts "close" to you, but can possibly cause crashes if done to slow
- responding hosts. If block is selected, the text to be pasted is sent in
- small packets of a size determined by you.
-
- Terminals Preferences Item:
- Most of these options are self explanatory.
- ----
-
- Other changes to Telnet that aren't obvious:
-
- The keyboard now works differently. If you are on a MacPlus, and have
- commandkeys off, the command key acts as control. If you have command keys
- on, you have no control key.
-
- For machines with keyboards with control keys, here is how it works:
- Command + Control + key = EMACS meta key + key (if turned on in Terminal
- config)
- commandkeys only affects wheter or not command key shortcuts are recognized.
-
- The option key is no longer used for keyboard input, but is still used as
- before with mouse input. Telnet no longer changes the current system
- KCHR.
-
- TEK windows can be resized. There is no grow icon in the lower right corner,
- but trust us, it works.
-
- If you hold down option, you can change the width and height of session windows.
- ----
- This is the list of all Telnet bugs known to NCSA, feel free to mail us if you
- find others:
-
- Crashes:
- • Crash if window size is changed under low memory conditions
- Interface:
- • Window positioning
- • Need to add blocksize pref
- • Telnet doesn't constrain saved window positions to available desktop
- • When switching to 132 columns, window's right edge should stay on screen
- * Connections are giving up too quickly (I believe this is a MacTCP problem)
- • Type during paste bug
- • Occasional problems getting the preferences to "stick"
- • Certain control characters not working due to Apple's bad KCHR
- • Certain macro sequences are not sent correctly (?)
- • \r,\n, and \t cannot appear in a Macro sequence
- • Some interaction problems with NeXT systems
- Implementation:
- • Need to always set push flag when sending return
- • Reduce WDS sizes?
- VT emulation:
- • VT220 insert mode problem
- • VT220 fn keys can still be sent while in vt100 mode
- • Problems w/VT emulation when connecting to certain VAX/VMS hosts
- • Screen trashing when forcesave is on
- • Bold font problems need to be solved
- • Tabs don't work completely
- FTP:
- * FTP log not very useful for Macbinary transfers
- • Can't have more than one FTP client at a time?
- * FTP server filename ISO tranlation not working?
- • FTP Server dropping characters in ASCII mode?
- • Need to add a provision for editing "anonymous"'s directory
- • Occasional MNetPush error when using FTP
- • Occasional "Unable to build data connection" errors w/FTP client
- • Occasional crashes from "lls" command in FTP client
- • FTP transfers occasionally creating zero size files
- • FTP client "lcd" not working properly?
- TEK:
- • Some TEK emulation bugs
-
- In progress for 2.7:
-
- • User set-able block size
- • Save Macros in other ways aside form Saved Sets
- • User set-able timeouts for open and send
- • FTP user directory restrictions
- • Reverse DNS connecting FTP hosts
- • User set-able font size
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-
- mactelnet@ncsa.uiuc.edu
-
-