ward@cfa.harvard.EDU (Steve Ward) (07/18/87)
I was contacted earlier in the week by one of Bridge's software
products managers. This individual assured me that the problem
that I had discussed on the network with the Bridge Terminal Server
Telnet functionality was being addressed now, and that Bridge had
actually decided about two months ago to undertake the modification
to their Telnet software. It was further explained to me that a
net mail message explaining this to me was sent about a month ago
when I first discussed this problem on the net. That mail message
never arrived and so I was unaware of this information. This has
been part of the problem, that is, not succeeding in communicating
with the right people at Bridge in a timely manner! Certainly we
initiated enough phone calls via our local salesman, and to the
"factory." Alas, this is hopefully history. I now have spoken with
the right person and now have established real communications with
Bridge.
Bridge will deliver the new software in Beta release on or about
Aug 15 and has offered to let us test it, which we are interested
in doing.
The problem I complained about was the lack of a user command
in the terminal server user interface to allow requesting the
other end of the Telnet connection (in my case VMS VAXes with
Excelan TCP/IP Exos boards) to enter binary mode. I have been
assured this is underway and will be available soon.
Steven Ward
Harvard-Smithsonian Observatory
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