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Re: LUGNet Chat
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Date: 
Mon, 12 Oct 1998 12:46:51 GMT
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Once upon a time, mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller) wrote:

Perhaps a Princess.... <sarah@eskimo.com> wrote:
In Your Opinion

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 (which can be significant if you're going to be using it
for any length of time) like being able to change the colors used. (Can you
even change the font? I forget.) Anyway, it's not meant to be a full
featured telnet program. It's like using Windows Write as a word processor.
(Or worse.)

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
the Fonts dialog.

And of course, the font is changed in Terminal | Preferences | Font.

But in your last statement, you are completely correct.  It isn't a
full-featured program.  The terminal.exe included in Win3.x was more
powerful (but I don't know if it could telnet).

Steve



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: LUGNet Chat
 
(...) Uh... Hyperterminal replaces Terminal in Win 3.x, NOT telnet.exe And yes, Hyperterminal works MUCH better than Terminal. I had to buy ProComm Plus in Win 3.X In Win95, I just used Hyperterminal until I finally went SLIP/PPP (forget which I (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: LUGNet Chat
 
[Followup set to lugnet.off-topic.debate] (...) An address book is better than that. Win95 just remembers where you've been last. A real address book will let you specify which hosts to save, and lets you do things like specify different options (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: LUGNet Chat
 
(...) 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 (...) (26 years ago, 9-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)

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