Re: telnet from Netscape Communicator

Jan Lindquist (exlibris@bigfoot.com)
Wed, 13 Aug 1997 23:01:37 -0400 

Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 23:01:37 -0400
Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19970813225951.006c46f8@pop4.ibm.net>
From: Jan Lindquist <exlibris@bigfoot.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <conntech>
Subject: Re: telnet from Netscape Communicator

Hi Isabel -
This solution is specific to a shareware app called CRT, by Van Dyke
Software, but it may show the way for other apps as well. I wrote to Mr.
Van Dyke when I encountered a similar problem, the correspondence follows:

>Jan Lindquist wrote:
>> 
>> Hi -
>> Thanks for the quick reply, but I guess I wasn't very clear. I can make CRT
>> the telnet app for Netscape 3.x, but it is Communicator, the 4.x that I am
>> having problems with. It configures in a completely different way. Setting
>> CRT as the telnet app only opens it; it does not follow the URL.
>
>I finally tracked down the problem.  You will need to download a new
>version of CRT.EXE :
>
>   ftp://ftp.vandyke.com/pub/CRT/tmp/CRT.EXE
>
>In addition, you will need to change your telnet helper app in
Communicator to be:
>
>   "C:\Program Files\CRT\CRT.EXE" "%1"
>
>( Assuming CRT.EXE is in C:\Program Files\CRT )
>
>If this does not resolve the problem, please let us know.
>
>Jeff P. Van Dyke
>support@vandyke.com
>
At 09:34 AM 8/13/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Well, I just upgraded my PC to win95 and thought I would take advantage of
>all the latest bells and whistles of Netscape Communicator 4.  I have run
>into one problem with it.  
>
>I see no obvious way of telling it to use a telnet client when I need to
>use one.  In Netscape  3 it was simply putting in a path to the appropriate
>application.
>
>Anyone out there with a solution?
>
>Isabel
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Isabel L. Danforth   Reference Librarian, Wethersfield Public Library
>danforth@tiac.net    Co-Director of Librarians' Online Support Team
>		       http://www.gnacademy.org:8001/~lost/ 
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
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Jan Lindquist                 
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