Telnet from Communicator

[Annie Sternburg]

We had the same problem and the only fix was to install 4.02.  Now the
telnet works fine.

Good luck,
Annie Sternburg, Internet Librarian
Nebraska Library Commission


On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Isabel  Danforth wrote:

> I know that this issue has been visited on this list before, but the
> solution from the archives does not seem to work for me.
> 
> I am having problems getting my telnet to work from Netscape Communicator
> using win95.   
> I go to the Edit menu. Select Preferences, then Navigator/Applications and
> scroll down to URL:Telnet Protocol.   The default was:
> 
> 	rundll32.exe url.dll,TelnetProtocolHandler %1
> 
> That did not work.  Since my Netscape is on my E drive and Windows is on my
> C drive, I also tried inserting c:\windows   in front of the above line.
> That did not work.
> 
> I tried to follow what is posted to web4lib on this archive:
> 	http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive/9707/0457.html
>  
> In that case, the term.exe is also on my E drive, and I did include the
> full path.  Still no success.
> 
>  The error meessage in all cases is 
> 	Unable to launch application.  Error code=2
> 
> Does anyone have any more  ideas?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Isabel  
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> danforth at tiac.net    Co-Director of Librarians' Online Support Team
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