Making telnet work in Internet Explorer 2.01 for Windows 3.x

[Knuth, Pat CARL knuthp]

I know this question has been discussed in the past, but I don't remember 
seeing a solution.  I discovered (while trying to solve another problem, 
isn't that always the way it goes?) that you can edit the iexplore.ini file 
to set up your telnet application.

Edit the iexplore.ini file located in the Windows directory.  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 click on the link to our catalog and 
Explorer telnets to it.

Hope this helps.

Pat Knuth
Systems Librarian
Combined Arms Research Library
Ft. Leavenworth, KS 66048
(913) 758-3019
knuthp at leav-ehm1.army.mil