mwills@x102a.harris-atd.com (wills ms 01309) (12/13/89)
Does anyone know of a way to get NCSA Telnet to use 43 line ega display? Also any optimization wisdom would be appreciated. I've experimented with the suggested parameters for an LAN given in Chapter 6 of the manual, but I still get an occasional: ICMP: Redirect, another gateway is more efficient. message. I'm sure this has to do with my gateway assignments or perhaps my "netmask" in config.sys, but I've fiddled with these (We are a class B subnet, so I set netmask to 255.255.0.0). I know that the client will adapt, but I'd like to fix it. I've used both NCSA and PC/TCP for a short while now, and find that I like them both for different reasons. PC/TCP is a very nice collection of UNIX-like LAN utilities. All of its terminal emulations include a "-43" option which allows nearly a page of text to be viewed on the screen (Even more dense options are available, if your eye sight is up to it :-). Still, the commercial PC/TCP product does not seem to have multiple telnet session capability, like the public domain NCSA Telnet, nor does PC/TCP have tektronix compatibility. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ M. Scott Wills arpa: mwills@rhino.harris-atd.com Mail Stop 102-4858 usenet: uunet!x102a!mwills Harris Corporation phone: 407-729-3283 Government Aerospace Systems Div. Bldg: 102 Room: 3426 P.O. Box 94000 Melbourne, FL 32902 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
mwills@x102a.harris-atd.com (wills ms 01309) (12/14/89)
In article <MWILLS.89Dec13102900@x102a.harris-atd.com> mwills@x102a.harris-atd.com (wills ms 01309) writes:
manual, but I still get an occasional:
ICMP: Redirect, another gateway is more efficient.
message. I'm sure this has to do with my gateway assignments or
perhaps my "netmask" in config.sys, but I've fiddled with these (We
are a class B subnet, so I set netmask to 255.255.0.0). I know that
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This seems to have doe the trick. No more ICMP messages!!!
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------------------------------------------------------------------------harish@guille.ece.orst.edu (Harish Pillay) (12/14/89)
In article <MWILLS.89Dec13102900@x102a.harris-atd.com> mwills@x102a.harris-atd.com (wills ms 01309) writes: >Does anyone know of a way to get NCSA Telnet to use 43 line ega >display? > Yes. All you need to do is at the command line say: -l 43 For example: tn3270 -l 43 hostname As a matter of fact, I'm attached to my host via an AT with a VGA monitor. So I specify -l 50 and get 50 lines on the screen (just great for reading 80% of the articles :-)). Additionally, I've created a termcap entry for ega43 and vga50 on my host machine that sets up the term properly. (Actually, these termcap entries are just copies of vt102's with the li#24 entry changed to li#43 and li#50 respectively.) I had to make the number of lines on the screen to 42 and 49 respectively because of the status line at the bottom of the screen. Hope this helps. ---- Harish Pillay harish@ece.orst.edu Oregon State University