vturner@nmsu.EDU (Vaughan Turner) (02/27/91)
This was posted on comp.protocols.appletalk quite a while ago, and has found
its way back to the net several times, so, here it is again:
Hope this helps,
Vaughan
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From Hooper_TA@cc.curtin.edu.au Mon Jul 23 09:03:59 1990
From: Hooper_TA@cc.curtin.edu.au (Todd Hooper)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: NCSA Telnet 2.2 fails on Portable - why?
Date: 23 Jul 90 03:04:52 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
In article <TJFS.90Jul19125757@tadtec.uucp>, tjfs@tadtec.uucp (Tim Steele) writes:
> It gets as far as trying to open a connection, then bombs with a
> System Error ID=12.
>
> Anyone seen this / know why?
I have a file I saved regarding a patch for this (rummages around)...
Caveat emptor - I have never used it so I don't know if it works.
Todd
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From: tom@wcc.oz (Tom Evans)
Subject:Re: NCSA Telnet for the Portable - PATCHES
Date: 14 May 90 00:52:10 GMT
Message-ID:<772@wcc.oz>
In article <1547@merlin.bhpmrl.oz.au>, ianh@bhpmrl.oz.au (Ian Hoyle) writes:
> Does anyone have a version (derivative ??) of NCSA Telnet that works on
> the Mac Portable ?? I've tried both the standard & MacTCP versions and
> consistently get a system bomb ID=12 error whenever I try to open a window.
It's a bug in Colo(u)r QuickDraw handling code. NCSA did sonething it
shouldn't have, and the Portable is the first Mac to object (in the
"Classic Mac Manner").
Courtesy ccc_ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
> You can do this patch with ResEdit: open up NCSA Telnet, and look for the
> CODE resource named "RS" (this is number 5 in the MacTCP version, and 6
> in the NCSA IP version), and look for the hex sequence "41E9 0042 4870
> 1800 AA9C". Replace this with "4E71 4E71 4E71 4E71 4E71" -- i e, the same
> number of NOPs.
and from Steve - aka billkatt@mondo.engin.umich.edu (billkatt)
> So... here are the fixes. NOTE: I am a discriminating kinda guy,
> so I only use the MacTCP version of Telnet 2.3. These patches probably only
> work on the MacTCP version of 2.3.
>
> Find (Hex) in the Resource fork: 4E AD 0A 9A
> Replace with: 4E 71 4E 71
>
> Ta da. Don't use this on anything but a portable.
--
VaughAn Turner Internet: vturner@nmsu.edu
Networking/Workstation Support Box 30001, Dept. 3AT
Computer Center, Networking/WSC Las Cruces, New Mexico
New Mexico State University 88003-0001
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Work: (505) 646-4244 FAX: (505) 646-5278 Home: (505) 522-3653
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"...the first rule of engineering [is] to work with Earth's natural forces,
never against them."
"Earth" by David Brin