telnet www.spring.net

~terry Sun, Oct 18, 1998 (06:05) seed

This is topic where those of us who telnet www.spring.net can share this with those who do not know how to telnet or who think it's too difficult (it's not).

~riette Mon, Oct 19, 1998 (03:02) #1

How does one telnet?

~terry Mon, Oct 19, 1998 (07:09) #2

One, first, gets themself a decent telnet off the net by going to this url and downloading a copy of CRT and installing it on their system. ftp://ftp.vandyke.com/pub/CRT/ntcrt23b1.exe Then you need to set it up by opening it and saying yes to everything like setting up a place for the .cfg file for whatever it is. Then you go in to CRT and set up a telnet session to www.spring.net by doing the following. 1. Pull down the File menu to New Window 2. Click on New and thus open the Session Preference menu 3. Under "Session" put the following: Name: www.spring.net Hostname or ip: www.spring.net 4. Click the emulation tab and change the scrollback buffer from 500 to 9999 5. Go to Display and pick your favorite background color if you like in "Schemes" you may have to play around with this for a while. 6. Go to "Scripts" and put in your username and password. You're set up! Then you can click on File and New Window and open a telnet session to the spring. When you get this far, we'll give you all kinds of help. You'll find this to be a lightning fast way to navigate through all the new responses. You may want to do as I do and keep both a telnet and a web session open at the same time to get the best of both worlds. Hope those directions are clear! William and a few others may have tips for you too! Both Riette and Sonja have telnet access.

~riette Tue, Oct 20, 1998 (01:22) #3

Thanks, Terry.

~terry Wed, Oct 21, 1998 (11:11) #4

Will you try it?

~ratthing Wed, Oct 21, 1998 (21:12) #5

i wholeheartedly recommend telnetting! it is so much faster than the web pages.

~riette Thu, Oct 22, 1998 (03:55) #6

I'll try once the sister's gone. When she's on I have to look after the kids, and when I'm on she has to, and when the kids aren't here, we aren't here either! So I'll wait until everything is back to normal, and my cd covers are done, and then I'll try it. Remind me though, otherwise I'll probably forget.

~terry Tue, Nov 3, 1998 (05:20) #7

I ran it! Painless.

~KitchenManager Wed, Nov 4, 1998 (00:06) #8

well...almost, anyway...

~mikeg Sat, Nov 28, 1998 (19:45) #9

Does anyone else have problems with the formatting of other's responses when using telnet? All of the responses I see are split in odd places, seeming as if the return key has been pressed at the wrong moment - anybody else? hints?

~ratthing Sat, Nov 28, 1998 (21:14) #10

mike, that is a problem related to viewing responses written by those coming in via the web. i am certain there is a way to fix it but it would involve a lot of coding on the web and telnet scripts, which i will hopefully get to at some point!

~KitchenManager Sat, Nov 28, 1998 (21:14) #11

(yeah, what Ray said...)

~terry Tue, Dec 1, 1998 (00:29) #12

I see others responses fine via telnet, it's mine that seem to get messed up.