NS Communicator Telnet Helper App

[Ed Cherry]

Sincere thanks to "Call me Bill" Drew for the right answer!  
This works like a charm.  Now, the next question (rhetorical 
only, no actual answer is needed or expected) is, why does a 
spanking-new, 32-bit software package need a "bad old days" DOS 
batch file kludge in order for a perfectly good telnet:// URL to 
work!  Make me think the new version should be named "Netscape 
Complicator." :-)

On Mon, 14 Jul 1997 06:43:14 -0700 Bill Drew 
<drewwe at morrisville.edu> wrote:

> I found a solution on Netscape's newsgroups.  For Windows machines
> create a telnet.bat file such as this text in the file:
> 
> c:\"Program Files"\QPC\QVTNET\bin\term.exe %2
> 
> SEt the properties for  it s to cloes when finished.
> 
> Now in Netscape Communicator, change the telnet in the applications
> section to:
> 
> C:\Program Files\QPC\QVTNet\bin\telnet.bat %1 %2
> 
> What this does is get rid of the first part that is wrongly passed to
> the telent program by Netscape Communicator.  The telenet.bat file only
> uses the second parameter which is the actual URL.  It works great. 
> 
> The above also works for setting up TN3270 programs.  Make sure to put
> the bat fiels in the proper locations specific to your system.  It seems
> to work with any telent or TN3270 program.  My exampleis specific to
> QVTNet.
> --
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