[comp.sys.mac.comm] NCSA Telnet 2.3 & Portrait Monitor

jaya@ra.src.umd.edu (Jaya Kanal) (02/28/91)

Has anyone experienced the following problem; and, did you find a way to
fix it? :

A Mac user here is running NCSA Telnet 2.3 on her Mac II w/ an Apple
Portrait Monitor, plenty of Ram, Multifinder, System 6.0.4, Finder 6.1.
She has the telnet window cover the length of the portrait screen (50
usable lines).  When she has one connection open and clicks in the scroll
bar while in the vi editor, her mac dies with a system bomb, id = 12
(Unimplemented core routine).  It only happens when she is in vi, and
changing the number of usable lines doesn't seem to help.  we have tried
changing the number of scroll back lines as well as increasing the memory
allocated to telnet.

The only things that seem to prevent the problem are:  not clicking in the
scrollbar, or
opening a second connection.  with more than one connection open, the
problem doesn't happen.  I couldn't reproduce the error on my mac (color
13" monitor, multifinder, etc.)

Any tips would be greatly appreciated -- please send e-mail to
jaya@ra.src.umd.edu

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Jaya Kanal, Systems Research Center
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