telnet from ms internet explorer

[Knuth, Pat CARL knuthp]

Isabel,

My experience is that you have edit the iexplore.ini file in the Windows 
subdirectory.
 Somewhere in there (on the 4th page, when it's printed out) is a section 
for [Helpers]  and a line that looks something like

; telnet=c:\mytelnet\mytelnet.exe %s

delete the ; and change the path to reflect your telnet application.  Mine 
looks like

telnet=c:\windows\telnet.exe %s

I don't know what the %s does for sure,  There's a comment that says  to 
insert %s where you want the filename of the viewer temp file to be 
substituted.

Since I've edited this file, I can telnet directly from Internet Explorer.

Hope this helps.

Pat Knuth
Systems Librarian
Combined Arms Research Library
Ft. Leavenworth, KS 66048
(913) 758-3019
knuthp at leav-ehm1.army.mil
 ----------
From: web4lib
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: telnet from ms internet explorer
Date: Friday, December 13, 1996 10:24AM

I just received my ISP's new 'startup ' floppy and am installing it on my
laptop.  They have switched to using ms explorer, so I figured that I would
use that on the laptop, and be able to have 2 different views of the world.
I have discovered one problem so far?  I cannot define my telnet client to
ms explorer?  Am I missing something?

Is it possible to have ms explorer open a telnet application directly?  I am
using it on a Win3.1 machine.

Thanks for any help.

Isabel
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Isabel L. Danforth     Reference Librarian, Wethersfield Public Library
danforth at tiac.net       Co-Director of Librarians' Online Support Team
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~