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- BUGS FIXED FOR NCSA Telnet 2.3.03
- 1) Screen modes should be restores more reliably
- 2) Dos shells now use the telnet screen mode
- 3) -n command line option disables screen restore
- *** NOTE - there is a problem with some video modes on some systems. Telnet
- will crash before actually entering the program in this case - I don't
- know what is causing it, but if this happens, use an older version.
- BUGS FIXED FOR NCSA Telnet 2.3.02:
- 1) The problem with screen dumps and the problem with ALT-F with VAXs has
- been fixed - Telnet was using <LF><CR> instead of <CR><LF>
- 2) Bootp problems have been fixed
- 3) AppleTalk should work again
- 4) Telnet should pay attention to Source Quench messages
- 5) Shelling to dos from ftp (or from ftp'ing back to your machine
- withing telnet) should not cause problems any more
- 6) FTP messages have been made more informative - both to the user and
- on the console screen (internal ftp server)
- 7) environment variables NCSA01 - NCSA99 now override options in the config.tel
- file - user ~ instead of = (set NCSA01="video~vga50;ftp~no")
- 8) -e option has been added to telbin.exe to override both config.tel and
- environment variables (-e "option=something")
- BUGS FIXED FOR NCSA Telnet 2.3.01:
- 1) The problem with packet drivers not working at all is gone. The problem
- was with MSC 6.00 and optimizations. MSC was "optimizing" packet driver
- support out of telnet
- 2) A minor bug with linemode was fixed. The case of an option that NCSA
- telnet supported and the remote host did not was not handled correctly.
-
- BUGS FIXED FOR NCSA Telnet 2.3-final:
- 1) Linemode works correctly (for the most part). Some strangeness occurs
- with recurring subnegotiation with NeXTs, but this appears to be the
- NeXTs doing.
- 2) Telnet now uses a UNIX style services file (services= in config.tel)
- to determine the destination of a packet received on an invalid port.
- It will always tell the port number and source ip address, and if an
- entry for the tcp port exists in the services file - the destination
- application according to services, otherwise unknown.
- 3) A new beep=(yes/no) entry in config.tel has been added. This is useful
- when multiple sessions are open and one of them beeps. The beeping
- session gets a pair of musical notes (ASCII 14) in its status
- indicator on the status bar.
- 4) Telnet now attempts to restore the screen on exit.
-
- BUGS FIXES FOR NCSA Telnet 2.3b15:
- 1) The mouse driver for cut & paste and scrollback operations is now
- functional- The left and right mouse buttons are mapped as below (in
- the b14 fixes), but when in scrollback mode, pressing and holding the left
- mouse button, then pressing the right button will do an "Alt-C" to capture
- a highlighted area of text, and then in non-scrollback mode, pressing and
- holding the right button and then pressing the left will do the equivalent
- of an "Alt-V" paste operation- This allows you to do cut&paste operations
- without touching the keyboard. Nifty, huh! :^)
-
- 2) Turbo C make has been improved (NOTE: I did _NOT_ say it has been fixed-
- I don't have Turbo C on my machine, so I haven't tested it. However, I
- have fixed a lot of bugs/discrepancies that impeded TC compiling.)
-
- 3) Background FTP tasks in Telnet no longer change your current directory.
-
- 4) FTP help has been re-alphabetized.
-
- 5) DEC VT100 Local Printer Escape sequences are now supported- ESC [5i now
- sends output to the screen AND the local printer (LPT1:) if attached, and
- ESC [4i switches the output back to screen only.
-
- 6) A "TELNET.PIF" file is now included for using NCSA Telnet within Microsoft
- Windows (tm) ver 3.0. This is not guaranteed to work, but it works for me.
-
-
- BUGS FIXES FOR NCSA Telnet 2.3b14:
- 1) Configurable ftp-back-to-PC string. This should normally be set to "-n"
- to avoid the "Username:" prompt.
-
- 2) Fixed some linemode negotiation bugs.
-
- 3) Fixed Telnet options printing on screen.
-
- 4) 'More' command fixed in FTP.
-
- 5) rsh utility added.
-
- 6) FTP color bug fixed.
-
- 7) 8-bit output mapping now allowed.
-
- 8) Mouse support added for editing. Currently, the movements are mapped to the
- arrow keys, the left button is mapped to '\n', and the right button is
- mapped to 'ScrlLck'.
-
- 9) Disable/enable mouse support (8). The mouse is disabled by default-
- pressing "Alt-M" or clicking the right mouse button enables it. Pressing
- "Alt-M" or the right mouse button again disables it, etc. Note that
- clicking the right mouse button to enable/disable the mouse also
- enables/disables scrollback mode. This means you can do a scrollback
- without touching the keyboard.
-
- 10) THE MESSAGES SCREEN IS NOW ALT-Z, _NOT_ ALT-M!!
-
- 11) MGET in ftp now checks filenames for dos compatability TO SOME EXTENT.
-
- 12) SITE command support added to ftpbin.
-
- 13) DEPCA driver should be fixed now.
-
- 14) MGET and MPUT now ask (Yes/No/All/Quit) for each file. All gets all the
- remaining files without interactive prompting, Quit terminates the
- current batch.
-
-
- BUGS FIXES FOR NCSA Telnet 2.3b13:
- 1) 3c505 driver added to release. Use in the standard manner for hardware
- boards.
-
- 2) BICC driver added to release. Use in the standard manner for hardware
- boards.
-
- 3) Bugs with the ftp server in telnet & the standalone ftp client/server
- should be fixed. This should prevent them from locking up at random
- times.
-
- 4) 'More' command added to the standalone ftp client/server, to toggle the
- state of it, type "more" at the command line. This should help with
- the lines scrolling off of the top of the screen.
-
- 5) Standalone ftp client/server now uses the colors set in the config.tel
- file.
-
- Known Bugs: Please see the BUGS file in this directory.
-
- Things Which Still Need To Be Crammed In:
-
- 1) All the bugs above.
-
- 2) A VGA monochrome screen driver.
-
- 3) Overlaying the code so that Telnet will take up less memory.
-
- 4) Maybe update the telpass interface.
-
- 5) Enhance the vt110 emulator to support double width & double height
- characters, and the printer toggle switches.
-
- Please keep the bug reports coming in.
- pctelbug@ncsa.uiuc.edu
-
-
- BUG FIXES FOR NCSA Telnet 2.3b12:
- 1) The problem with the backspace acting like a carriage return in ftpbin
- has been resolved.
-
- 2) FTP now handles disk full errors correctly, and also intelligently
- strips off the ^Z character on the end of text files which have it.
-
- 3) The Appletalk driver is now working. You need to specify the interupt
- that the appletalk card is using in the config.tel file, i.e.:
- hardware=atalk
- interrupt=60
-
- 4) Output mapping has been added to allow foreign character sets to display
- better. The format is very similar to the keyboard mapping, i.e.:
- "set key a b" in the output mapping file would map all the 'a' characters
- displayed onto the screen to 'b' characters when the are displayed.
- This output mapping is specific to each session and may be turned on
- and off from the parameter menu (Alt-P). The entry to the config.tel
- file is as follows:
- outputfile=<filename>
-
- 5) Sometimes characters from teh extended keyboard are getting eaten.
- These include the '5' key on the numeric keypad, and the f11 & f12 keys.
- This can be solved by turning off the clock display. A menu option
- has been added to the parameter menu (Alt-P) to facilitate this.
-
- 6) The BOOTP method of receiving an ethernet address has been fixed and
- is now fully functional. Please note that some of the utilities
- we provide may not work correctly with this option, for example,
- all the hosts which can print on a UNIX host are usually indexed by
- their IP number, which in the case of BOOTP is dynamically assigned.
- This will mean that you will probably not be allowed to print on the
- UNIX machine.
-
- 7) Removed the check for the '-h' being the first parameter for LPR to
- specify the config.tel file, as it was causing more problems than
- it was solving.
-
- 8) Cleaned up some problems with the graphics menu (Alt-G) hanging the machine
- when tektronix mode was not initialized.
-
- 9) Included the object files for the assembly files for those people without
- assemblers.
-
- 10) Included makefiles for Microsoft C 6.0 and Turbo C. (makefile.msc &
- makefile.tcc respectively)
-
- Known Bugs: Please see the BUGS file in this directory.
-
- Things Which Still Need To Be Crammed In:
-
- 1) All the bugs above.
-
- 2) A VGA monochrome screen driver.
-
- 3) Overlaying the code so that Telnet will take up less memory.
-
- 4) Maybe update the telpass interface.
-
- 5) Enhance the vt110 emulator to support double width & double height
- characters, and the printer toggle switches.
-
- Please keep the bug reports coming in!
- pctelbug@ncsa.uiuc.edu
-
-
- BUG FIXES FOR NCSA Telnet 2.3b11:
-
- 1) Added support in config.tel for braodcast IP address to be set, this
- allows for better compatibility with out-of-date networks which use
- different broadcast IP numbers. To use this option, include the line:
- broadcast=xx.xx.xx.xx # where xx.xx.xx.xx is the broadcast IP number
- for the network you are on.
-
- 2) Fixed the parsing of the keyboard mapping file to accept mixed case
- strings, and octal & hex strings.
-
- 3) Changed the Abort Telnet Key to Ctrl-Shift-F3.
-
- 4) Fixed the memory overwrite problems when changing the session name
- and the capture file name.
-
- 5) Fixed the problem with the backspace in ftpbin not working correctly.
-
- 6) Fixed problem with Ctrl-Home & Home crashing the machine when
- tek=no was in the config.tel file.
-
- 7) Added support for thr DECnet DEPCA ethernet boards, this hardware option
- is:
- hardware=decnet # DECnet DEPCA boards
-
- 8) Fixed assorted memory bugs associated with the ftp server in telnet.
-
- 9) Added the ability to shell to DOS while in server mode, with the ALT-E
- option.
-
- 10) Added the option to capture the screen to a file, with the ALT-D command.
-
- 11) Added the following network utilities:
- finger - same as the UNIX command finger
- rexec - same as the UNIX command rexec, except it doesn't allow for
- interactive input from the user on the PC.
- setclock - set the PC clock from a UNIX machine.
-
- 12) Fixed the mouse driver begin backwards in scroll back mode.
-
- 13) Added more characters for the password in ftpbin to be transmitted.
-
- 14) Added support for the ACCT command in ftpbin.
-
- 15) Added an option to ftpbin, -e <filename>, which accepts scripting input
- from the file: <filename>, but is un-scripted for the user name and
- the password.
-
- 16) Fixed ascii transfer in ftpbin, to not drop the last character, or
- append ctrl-m ctrl-[, in certain cases.
-
- 17) The appletalk driver should be working, give it a try.
-
- 18) Please note the bug report address is changed from telbug@ncsa.uiuc.edu
- to pctelbug@ncsa.uiuc.edu.
-
- 19) Somebody e-mail me, if they actually get a NULL pointer overwritten
- error when exitting from telnet, it may be fixed.
-
- NOTE: For Microsoft Windows users out there, don't run Telnet in the
- background, packets get dropped or written to other applications causing
- crashes. Run Telnet in exclusive mode, and turn on bios screen usage
- (bios=yes). We have also had conflicting reports of Telnet working well
- with Windows, so at least try to take care.
-
-
- Known Bugs:
-
- 1) Tektronix GIN mode is not fixed yet.
-
- 2) FTPBIN is slow, and doesn't handle disk full problems well yet,
- and also has problems with small (~5kb) ascii files.
-
- 3) Pasting from the copy buffer into a session is not printed when in
- line mode.
-
- 4) The keyboard drops f11, f12, and the keypad 5 key occasionally.
-
- 5) BOOTP is broken, to be fixed again in the next beta release.
-
- Things Which Still Need To Be Crammed In:
-
- 1) All the bugs above.
-
- 2) A VGA monochrome screen driver.
-
- 3) Overlaying the code so that Telnet will take up less memory.
-
- 4) Maybe update the telpass interface.
-
- 5) Enhance the vt110 emulator to support double width & double height
- characters, and the printer toggle switches.
-
- Please keep the bug reports coming in!
- pctelbug@ncsa.uiuc.edu
-
-
- BUG FIXES FOR NCSA Telnet 2.3b10:
-
- 1) Fixed LPR not to send a null length file when the file doesn't exist.
-
- 2) Grabbed another couple of interrupts to get the ctrl-c trapping better.
- This should finally take care of the problem.
-
- 3) LPR now reads files from other drives correctly.
-
- 4) LPQ & LPRM now look for CONFIG.TEL environment variable, instead of
- CONFIGTEL environment variable in order to be compatible with the
- rest of the applications.
-
- 5) The packet driver interface now passes RARP packets. I am not totally
- certain if it will pass a BOOTP packet or not.
-
- 6) A BRAND SPANKING NEW keyboard mapping interface. This facility should
- be totally compatible with MS-Kermit keyboard mapping files. The only
- thing we don't support are some of the kermit verbs to map to keys.
- Please read the keymap.txt file for detailed information.
-
- 7) Moved a bunch of #includes around in the source to make porting to other
- compilers easier.
-
- 8) Added a sane memory error trapping function. If telnet suddenly spits
- a message at you about a memory problem and says that it has written
- a telnet.err file, _PLEASE_ mail it back to us so we can fix the bug
- which caused it. (For those of you who are interested in nice memory
- debugging code, take a look at the memdebug.c file, it contains some
- really slick replacements for dynamic memory allocation which I scarfed
- from a recent Dr. Dobbs article and enhanced.)
-
- 9) Added the Alt+W command to send your password when ftp'ing back to your
- own machine while in telnet. Just press Alt+W at the Password: prompt
- and hit enter, your password from the telnet password file will be
- sent back to your machine.
-
- 10) Patched the existing code some to enable the BOOTP support. To use this
- method of recieving your IP number, just include the myip=BOOTP setting in
- your config.tel file.
-
- 11) LPR was patched to print the burst page.
-
- 12) The color support has been enhanced to allow high intensity foreground
- text and blinking backgrounds. To use this, just set whatever color,
- nfcolor for example, to a color in capitals. For example, nfcolor=CYAN
- would set the normal text's foreground color to bright cyan.
-
- 13) Because of the new keyboard mapping interface, the shifted function key
- macros and the keyboard= entries in the config.tel were removed. Just
- use the new keyboard mapping interface, its a lot better.
-
- NOTE: For Microsoft Windows users out there, don't run Telnet in the
- background, packets get dropped or written to other applications causing
- crashes. Run Telnet in exclusive mode, and turn on bios screen usage
- (bios=yes). We have also had conflicting reports of Telnet working well
- with Windows, so at least try to take care.
-
-
- Known Bugs:
-
- 1) Tektronix GIN mode is not fixed yet. (Sorry, but it will be one of the
- first things I work on, I promise!)
-
- 2) FTPBIN is slow, and doesn't handle disk full problems well yet.
-
- 3) The dreaded NULL pointer error on exitting Telnet is still around. This
- may not get fixed until we get the new version of Codeview, because Telnet
- is too large to debug normally.
-
- 4) Pasting from the copy buffer into a session is not printed when in
- line mode.
-
- 5) Mouse may move backwards in the scrollback for certain mice.
-
- Things Which Still Need To Be Crammed In:
-
- 1) All the bugs above.
-
- 2) Appletalk driver will get fixed.
-
- 3) Various people have asked for more screen drivers, so perhaps if a lot of
- people ask for different screen drivers for tektronix plots, we will
- add another screen driver or two.
-
- 4) Overlaying the code so that Telnet will take up less memory.
-
- 5) Maybe update the telpass interface.
-
- Please keep the bug reports coming in!
- pctelbug@ncsa.uiuc.edu
-
-
- BUG FIXES FOR NCSA Telnet 2.3b9:
-
- 1) A patch was made to make the NIC PS/2 card work correctly.
-
- 2) The problems with the LPR utilities not having enough stack space has
- been fixed.
-
- 3) The problem with domain name serving which was introduced in b8 has
- been fixed.
-
- 4) Added an option to the config.tel file to determine whether the clock
- should be on or off. The default is on
- ex. - clock=off
-
- 5) Fixed several problems introduced in b8 having to do with the vt100
- emulation. This caused various problems using EDT on Vaxes.
-
- 6) Fixed bug which did not reset the line wrapping mode when Alt-R was
- pressed to reset vt100 emulation.
-
- NOTE: For Microsoft Windows users out there, don't run Telnet in the
- background, packets get dropped or written to other applications causing
- crashes. Run Telnet in exclusive mode, and remember to turn off keyboard
- re-mapping in your config.tel (keyboard=off), and turn on bios screen usage
- (bios=yes). We have also had conflicting reports of Telnet working well
- with Windows, so at least try to take care.
-
-
- Known Bugs:
-
- 1) Tektronix GIN mode is not fixed yet.
-
- 2) The keyboard mapper still has a cruddy file interface, this will get
- improved in the next couple of weeks.
-
- 3) The keyboard gets reset to a US keyboard from the users keyboard type.
-
- 4) FTPBIN is slow, and doesn't handle disk full problems well yet.
-
- 5) The dreaded NULL pointer error on exitting Telnet is still around. This
- may not get fixed until we get the new version of Codeview, because Telnet
- is too large to debug normally.
-
- 6) Macros and pasting the copy buffer are not printed when in line mode.
-
- 7) LPR sends a null length entry when a file doesn't exist.
-
- 8) Mouse may move backwards in the scrollback for certain mice.
-
- 9) LPR does not find files on other drives.
-
- 10) LPR may not be reading the command line for the -h option correctly.
-
- Things Which Still Need To Be Crammed In:
-
- 1) All the bugs above.
-
- 2) Definiteley re-write the keybaord mapping to handle arbitrary length
- strings for any key on the keyboard.
-
- 3) Appletalk driver will get fixed.
-
- 4) Various people have asked for more screen drivers, so perhaps if a lot of
- people ask for different screen drivers for tektronix plots, we will
- add another screen driver or two.
-
- 5) Overlaying the code so that Telnet will take up less memory.
-
- 6) Maybe update the telpass interface.
-
-
- This week, one of the developers for Telnet, Heeren Pathak, graduated from the
- university and left NCSA to work at Mitre. I would like to thank Heeren for
- all his effort and time he has devoted to this piece of software, and for
- everyone to wish him well in his new endeavours.
-
-
- Please keep the bug reports coming in!
- pctelbug@ncsa.uiuc.edu
-
- BUG FIXES FOR NCSA Telnet 2.3b8:
-
- 1) No change in the internal ethernet drivers. The Appletalk is still under
- some work, but the ni9210 may be put on indefinite hold.
-
- 2) The previously reported 'bug' about Telnet corrupting the environment
- when you are shelled out is a bug in the Microsoft compiler. There is
- presently nothing we can do to fix this problem. Possibly when we get
- our copy of Microsoft C 6.0 the problem will go away, but don't hold your
- breath.
-
- 3) The scrollback has been speeded up and now also restores the screen
- correctly when exitting. The cursor is now replaced correctly when you
- exit. There are several new things about the scrollback buffer which
- are documented here. The key sequence "home-home" will place the cursor
- at the upper left corner of the present screen, and the key sequence
- "end-end" will place the cursor at the lower right corner of the current
- screen. Pressing "home" or "end" will take you to the beginning or end
- of the current line respectively. "Pgup" and "Pgdn" move you an entire
- screen up or down in the buffer, but don't move the cursor position.
- The behavior of the scrollback buffer when the cursor is on the top or
- bottom line and the up or down arrow (respectively) is pressed is now
- determined by the "autoscroll=[no|yes]" configuration variable. If
- autoscroll is yes (the default state), then the screen will continue to
- scroll in a direction until the opposite key is pressed (i.e. the down
- arrow, when scrolling up). If autoscrolling is off, then the buffer
- will only scroll one line up further into the buffer.
-
- 4) Telnet now reports back negotiation information to the console window
- about the option negotiation which is being processed with the telnet
- server you are connected to. This allows you to see exactly what telnet
- options are enabled and what the server would like Telnet to support.
-
- 5) The alt-B key now moves you a session back in the list of sessions you
- have open. ( A source of great relief to me at least...)
-
- 6) A small vt100 bug was cleaned up which dealt with the "^[c" sequence
- eating the next vt100 sequence which followed.
-
- 7) F11 & F12 are available as macro keys again (due to overwhelming response).
-
- 8) The keyboard mapping was eating the Print Screen key, but now it passes it
- correctly, and prints out the text on the screen.
-
- 9) A new configuration option was added to allow sessions which are closed to
- disappear without needing an additional keypress was added. This option
- is "windowgoaway=[no|yes]" in the configuration file. The default state
- is set to not make windows go away.
-
- 10) The following list of ftp commands was added to Telnet's ftp server:
- CDUP - allows the ftp connection to change to the parent directory
- MKD - allows the ftp connection to create a directory on the machine
- running Telnet
- RMD - allows the ftp connection to remove a directory on the machine
- running Telnet
- DELE - allows the ftp connection to delete a file on the machine
- running Telnet
-
- These last two commands violate the security of the machine running Telnet,
- so we highly recommend that you create a password file for Telnet and use
- it all the time. Without a password file, anyone can ftp to your machine
- and wipe you out!
-
- 11) Linemode and Negotiate About Window Size (NAWS) options are added to
- the telnet options that Telnet supports.
-
- 12) The ctrl-C is fixed for certain now! I patched the ctrl-C interupt
- directly. The previous problems were caused by the Microsoft C compiler
- doing odd things with the interupt signal.
-
- 13) Support for more function keys was added to the vt100 key support. This
- is a non-standard addition, but several people asked for it. The function
- keys F5 thru F10 now extended the F1-F4 vt100 sequences:
- F1 - ESC[P
- F2 - ESC[Q
- F3 - ESC[R
- F4 - ESC[S
- F5 - ESC[T
- F6 - ESC[U
- F7 - ESC[V
- F8 - ESC[W
- F9 - ESC[X
- F10- ESC[Y
-
- 14) Two additional options were added to the configuration file:
- cursorstart=[0-9]
- cursorend=[0-9]
- These two options allow you to choose what line the cursor starts on
- and ends on. These two options take a number, which is the number of
- lines from the top of the character block to begin and end. The default
- is to have an underline cursor in 24 line mode, and a block cursor in
- 43 & 50 line mode.
-
- 15) Support for the AT&T Starlan 10 ethernet board was added as an internal
- driver. Thanks for Larry Hicks at Bradley University for the effort
- in writing it. There is an example of the use in the config.tel
- supplied with this package.
-
- NOTE: For Microsoft Windows users out there, don't run Telnet in the
- background, packets get dropped or written to other applications causing
- crashes. Run Telnet in exclusive mode, and remember to turn off keyboard
- re-mapping in your config.tel (keyboard=off), and turn on bios screen usage
- (bios=yes). We have also had conflicting reports of Telnet working well
- with Windows, so at least try to take care.
-
-
- Known Bugs:
-
- 1) Tektronix GIN mode is not fixed yet.
-
- 2) The keyboard mapper still has a cruddy file interface, this will get
- improved in the next couple of weeks.
-
- 3) The keyboard gets reset to a US keyboard from the users keyboard type.
-
- 4) LPR is crashing with a variety of errors.
-
- 5) FTPBIN is slow, and doesn't handle disk full problems well yet.
-
- 6) Domain look ups for long machine names have some problems.
- (How long you say?, I don't know, I am still trying to get a grip on it).
-
- 7) The dreaded NULL pointer error on exitting Telnet is still around. This
- may not get fixed until we get the new version of Codeview, because Telnet
- is too large to debug normally.
-
-
- Things Which Still Need To Be Crammed In:
-
- 1) All the bugs above.
-
- 2) Appletalk driver will get fixed.
-
- 3) Various people have asked for more screen drivers, so perhaps if a lot of
- people ask for different screen drivers for tektronix plots, we will
- add another screen driver or two.
-
- 4) Overlaying the code so that Telnet will take up less memory.
-
- 5) Maybe update the telpass interface.
-
-
- This week, one of the developers for Telnet, Heeren Pathak, graduated from the
- university and left NCSA to work at Mitre. I would like to thank Heeren for
- all his effort and time he has devoted to this piece of software, and for
- everyone to wish him well in his new endeavours.
-
-
- Please keep the bug reports coming in!
- pctelbug@ncsa.uiuc.edu
-
- BUG FIXES FOR NCSA Telnet 2.3b7:
-
- 1) No change in the internal ethernet drivers. The Appletalk is still under
- some work, but the ni9210 may be put on indefinite hold.
-
- 2) The cursor changing from an underscore into a larger underscore on
- monochrome monitors is rectified.
-
- 3) Ctrl-C will no longer break out of Telnet.
-
- 4) Added -r command line switch to turn output redirection off in ftpbin.exe.
-
- 5) Fixed various problems making "mget *" in ftpbin.exe do bad things to
- memory and crash.
-
- 6) When shelling to DOS from Telnet, the COMSPEC= environment variable is
- now checked to see what shell to spawn.
-
- 7) Undefined macro keys (shift f1-f10) no longer print wierd strings.
-
- 8) Hercules graphics mode fixed, now supports Tektronix mode again.
-
- 9) Patched ftpbin.exe so that the last character in a file (ctrl-Z) is not
- omitted during binary file transfers.
-
- 10) Added function prototypes and #ifdef's to avoid header file re-inclusion
- to source.
-
- 11) A couple of vt100 emulation bugs which only manifested themselves when
- connected to a VMS machine have been patched, please check these out and
- let us know if they are correct.
-
- 12) A bunch of bugs were found in various sections of the code which we believe
- have eliminated the 'assignment to null pointer' run-time error when
- exitting Telnet. If you experience this error please make certain to
- report a bug and let us know about it.
-
- 13) SOURCE RELEASE!!! This is still a beta set of source. It has been cleaned
- up well enough that it only generates a couple of "formal parameter not
- used" warnings, but there is still some work which needs to get done.
-
- NOTE: For Microsoft Windows users out there, don't run Telnet in the
- background, packets get dropped or written to other applications causing
- crashes. Run Telnet in exclusive mode, and remember to turn off keyboard
- re-mapping in your config.tel (keyboard=off), and turn on bios screen usage
- (bios=yes).
-
- Known Bugs:
-
- 1) Tektronix GIN mode is not fixed yet.
-
- 2) The keyboard mapper still has a cruddy file interface, this will get
- improved in the next couple of weeks.
-
- 3) The keyboard gets reset to a US keyboard from the users keyboard type.
-
- 4) When shelled out to DOS from Telnet, the environment is corrupted somehow,
- but this is at the trailing end of the environment and doesn't cause
- crashes (I think).
-
- Things Which Still Need To Be Crammed In:
-
- 1) Telnet line mode support.
-
- 2) A few configuration options to allow users to change the cursor they use
- in Telnet.
-
- Please keep the bug reports coming in!
- pctelbug@ncsa.uiuc.edu
-
- NCSA Telnet 2.3b6
-
- 1) Drivers update
-
- The following is an update on the status of the internal Telnet drivers.
-
- For the PC Bus,
- Name Board Works??
- -------------------------------------------------------------
- atalk *Apple Talk No
- packet *Packet Driver Yes
- 3c501 3COM 3C501 Yes
- 3c503 *3COM 3C503 Yes
- pcnic Ungermann-Bass PC-NIC Yes
- wd8003e Western Digital WD8003E Yes
- wd8003eb Western Digital WD8003EB Yes
- ni5210 MICOM NI5210 Yes
-
-
- For PS/2 MCA bus,
-
- Name Board Works??
- -------------------------------------------------------------
- nicps/2 Ungermann-Bass NICps/2 Yes
- 3c523 3COM 3C523 Yes
- wd8003a Western Digital WD8003EA Yes
- ni9210 *MICOM NI9210 No
-
- The ??? indicate boards that are buggy. Please test them out and report
- back to us.
-
- 2) ftp shell escape fixed
-
- 3) ftp -h parameter correctly reconized
-
- 4) EGA tek emulator fixed
-
- 5) VGA tek support added
-
- BIG FIXES FOR NCSA Telnet 2.3b5
-
- 1) 3c523 Driver fixed.
-
- 2) Additional keystrokes added to Scroll Lock mode
- Home -> Beginning of Line
- End -> End of Line
- Cntl+PGUP -> Top of Scrollback buffer
- Cntl+PGCN -> Bottom of Scrollback buffer
-
- 3) External TCP/IP Utilities
-
- The following utilities now work with the new drivers and
- keyboard mapper. If NCSA Telnet works these should also
- work.
-
- ftpbin.exe -> ftp client & server
- minitel.exe -> a very simple telnet program
-
- Network Printing Utilites contributed by Paul Hilchey.
- lpr.exe, lpq.exe, lprm.exe.
-
- 4) 3c503 driver fixed.
- The 3c503 board does not allow the software to determine whether
- thin or thick Ethernet is being used. Therefore, telnet needs
- to be told what type of wire is being used. A new config.tel
- keyword "wire" has been added. Its usage is shown below.
-
- wire=thin ; this is the default. Telnet will use thin Ether
- wire=thick ; Telnet will use thick Ether
-
-
- 5) Keyboard Mapper bug fixes.
-
- CAPS LOCK no longer blocks control and ALT characters.
- NUM LOCK now maps the keypad correctly.
-
- 6) Keyboard Mapper addition. The keyboard mapper now addresses all the keys
- on the 101 key (extended) keyboard. There is an extra map which has been
- added to the already existing five keyboard maps (NORMAL, LEFT SHIFT, RIGHT
- SHIFT, ALT, and CONTROL). The extra map is for the extended keys, these
- keys are only generated by the extended keyboard. The extra map consists
- of 89 pairs of integers (one for each key), and is in the same order as
- the other maps (see the README file for details). The order of the maps
- is now : NORMAL, LEFT SHIFT, RIGHT SHIFT, ALT, CONTROL, and EXTENDED.
-
- 7) ftp excepts full pathnames for changing directories. It requires that
- you type a double backslash for each single backslash in the path name
- however, i.e. "c:\\dos" for "c:\dos". You may use a forward slash '/'
- for the backslashes in MS-DOS path names also, i.e. "c:/dos" for
- "c:\dos".
-
- 8) Ungerman Bass PC/NIC driver is fixed.
-
- 9) Western Digital 8003A Microchannel Card fixed.
-
- 10) Drivers update
-
- The following is an update on the status of the internal Telnet drivers.
-
- For the PC Bus,
- Name Board Works??
- -------------------------------------------------------------
- atalk *Apple Talk ???
- packet *Packet Driver Yes
- 3c501 3COM 3C501 Yes
- 3c503 *3COM 3C503 Yes
- pcnic Ungermann-Bass PC-NIC Yes
- wd8003e Western Digital WD8003E Yes
- wd8003eb Western Digital WD8003EB Yes
- ni5210 MICOM NI5210 Yes
-
-
- For PS/2 MCA bus,
-
- Name Board Works??
- -------------------------------------------------------------
- nicps/2 Ungermann-Bass NICps/2 Yes
- 3c523 3COM 3C523 Yes
- wd8003a Western Digital WD8003EA Yes
- ni9210 *MICOM NI9210 No
-
- The ??? indicate boards that are buggy. Please test them out and report
- back to us.
-
- BUG FIXES FOR NCSA Telnet 2.3b4:
-
- 1) Drivers update
-
- The following is an update on the status of the internal Telnet drivers.
-
- For the PC Bus,
- Name Board Works??
- -------------------------------------------------------------
- atalk *Apple Talk ???
- packet *Packet Driver Yes
- 3c501 3COM 3C501 Yes
- 3c503 *3COM 3C503 ???
- pcnic Ungermann-Bass PC-NIC No
- wd8003e Western Digital WD8003E Yes
- wd8003eb Western Digital WD8003EB Yes
- ni5210 MICOM NI5210 Yes
-
-
- For PS/2 MCA bus,
-
- Name Board Works??
- -------------------------------------------------------------
- nicps/2 Ungermann-Bass NICps/2 Yes
- 3c523 3COM 3C523 ???
- wd8003a Western Digital WD8003EA No
- ni9210 *MICOM NI9210 No
-
- The ??? indicate boards that are buggy. Please test them out and report
- back to us.
-
-
- 2) Terminal type negotiation.
-
- Telnet can now send its terminal type a host. The default terminal
- type is "dec-vt100." It can be changed with the termtype option in the
- config.tel file, e.g.
-
- termtype="vt100"
-
- will cause telnet to send the string "vt100" instead of "dec-vt100" to a host.
-
-
- 3) Telnet to "other port" works with Domain lookup
-
- Previously, attempting to connect to a port on a machine requiring a
- domain lookup resulted in a connection to the Telnet port and not the
- specified port.
-
- Now the sucessful lookup will result in the connection to the specified port.
-
- BUG FIXES FOR NCSA Telnet 2.3b3:
-
- 1) Alt-E escape to DOS no longer results in stack overflow.
-
- 2) Addition of macros for shift-function key combination
- (Shift-f1 through Shift-f12)
-
- The shift-function key combinations can now be mapped to user-defined
- strings. Twelve new keywords have been added to config.tel, one for
- each function key (f1,f2,f3,....,f12).
-
- To assign a macro string to a function key:
-
- <key>=<string>
-
- where <key> is one of the new keywords and <string> contains your
- macro.
-
- The following key sequences are used to generate special characters
- in your macro. They follow the same style as the C programming
- language and may seem strange if you are not familiar with C.
-
- Desired Character Definition
- ----------------- ----------
- Backslash (\) \\
- TAB \t
- CR LF \n or \r
- Space \032
- Number of text rows \#
- Internet number of PC \i
-
- The \xxx string, where xxx is a number between 0-255, will send that
- character to the the host, e.g. the Space key above.
- If your macro string contains spaces, then the string either
- has to be encased in quotes or the space should be coded as
- a special character.
-
- e.g. f1="ftp \i\n" and f1=ftp\032\i\n are functionally identical.
-
- BUG FIXES FOR NCSA Telnet 2.3b2:
-
- 1) Appletalk driver better (may not be quite right yet, but it is now
- at least compiled into the executable correctly).
-
- 2) Client mode fixed from Microsoft C 5.1 port. Now works correctly
- in binary mode.
-