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Re: LUGNet Chat
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lugnet.admin.general
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 (...) (28 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 (...) (28 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 (...) (28 years ago, 9-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)

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