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Re: LUGNet Chat
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 9 Oct 1998 22:51:47 GMT
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On Fri, 9 Oct 1998 22:31:30 GMT, mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller)
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> The telnet client that comes with Win95 is utter crap -- anyone wanting to
> do anything serious really ought to get something better, like NetTerm.
> (Or SecureCRT, which is great because it also does SSH, which is encrypted.)
In Your Opinion
IMO, WIn95's telnet does EVERYTHING I need it to.
It is better than most, in fact. It has copy+paste capability, and
logging. :)
I don't know what more is needed.
(I've never sent anything over telnet that needs encryption. If that
is important. Yeah. Telnet won't do that natively)
Sarah
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| (...) Well. It's not a baseless opinion. It has very limited terminal emulation capability, has trouble understanding that a standard terminal screen size is 80x25, doesn't let you create an address book.... Not to mention simple aesthetic issues (...) (26 years ago, 9-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) For address book, do you mean a list of servers? Win95 telnet compiles this automatically as you visit servers. You can change the colors by going to Terminal | Preferences. Background Color has its own button, foreground color is changed in (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) I dunno. Many (most?) ISPs these days don't even give out shell accounts, let alone being cool enough to install useful programs.... (...) :) Yes, of course Unix has it by default. The telnet client that comes with Win95 is utter crap -- (...) (26 years ago, 9-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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