McGill 3270 and Netscape 4

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   Hi! Unfortunately, I misspoke. I have installed NetScape 4, but had not 
   tried to configure this yet. Intrying it now, I see that they have done the 
   same thing that Internet Explorer has always done.
      I have never quite figured out to make this work, when it calls the 
   "TelnetProtocolHandler" (or the tn3270). I think that it might be doable by 
   editing the registry, but I've never quite gotten it to work.
   
   This is sad -- NetScape used to be the easiest to configure for helper 
   applications (as opposed to add-in, plug-ins, etc.) and was one of the few 
   reasons that I have not moved our public machines over to IE.
   
   Oh, well... I wish I had an answer, but I have never been successful in 
   getting McGill TCP3270 to work with this setup.
   
   --Richard
   
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Subject: Re: McGill 3270 and Netscape 4  
Author:  <jedwards at uottawa.ca > at SMTP
Date:    8/13/98 7:35 AM

Hi,
   
I have been having the same problem too with TCP3270 and netscape 4. 
I read your message with much interest and tried what you are 
suggesting and it has improved the situation.
   
Although it looks like none of those solutions are passing 
automatically to TCP3270 the telnet address that is on the web page. 
Instead it loads the default telnet address specified in TCP3270 or 
asks me to enter one.
   
Would you happen to know how Netscape 4.0 can pass a telnet address 
to TCP3270 and establish the connexion instantly?
   
Jean-Marc Edwards
Systems Librarian
Unievrsity of Ottawa
   
   
>    Hi! You need a number of parameters in the command line that 
>    calls TCP3270.
> 
>          <path>win3270 -a -p<profile name> -h 
> 
>    The   -a   eliminates the copyright screen 
> 
>          -p   supplies default screen/font settings 
> 
>          -h   allows the host address to be input 
> 
>    For this to work with NetScape, make sure that the "-h" is the 
>    last parameter.
> 
>    --Richard
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> 4 Author:  <cindi at email.uky.edu > at SMTP Date:    2/12/98 6:46 PM 
> 
> 
> Has anyone had any luck with Netscape 4 and using McGill as the
> tn3270 program?  I can only get it to connect to the gateway address 
> listed in the ini file for McGill, no matter what Netscape is trying 
> to send.
> 
> I searched the web4lib archive and found Bill Drew's solution 
> (http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive/9707/0467.html )
> suggesting creating a telnet.bat file, but this doesn' t work with 
> McGill, no matter how I move those %1s and %2s around.  It wants to 
> connect to the address listed in the [Default] section of the
> net3270.ini file, and just presents a blank connection box if there 
> is no address in that section.
> 
> This stubborn thing is driving me nuts!  I'm *almost* ready to give 
> up and just let users connect to our catalog, no matter what
> tn3270:// link they click on!
> 
> Thanks.
> Cindi
> --
> Cindi Trainor
> Electronic Resources Librarian
> University of Kentucky
> cindi at email.uky.edu or cindi at pop.uky.edu 
> 
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