McGill 3270 and Netscape 4

[Jean-Marc Edwards]

Hi,

Your explanation is right for most telnet programs but it does not 
seem to work for TCP3270. I have contacted someone here on our campus 
that apparently has found the solution. I will post it on this group 
when I have an answer from him.

Jean-Marc Edwards
Bibliothécaire des systèmes (Internet et formation)
Université d'Ottawa


> At 09:12 AM 2/13/98 -0800, rpage at okway.okstate.edu wrote:
> >   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.
> 
> I'm not sure if this is your problem, but to add a tn3270
> application to Netscape 4.0, select
> Edit/Preferences/Navigator/Applications and scroll down to
> URL:TN3270. Highlight it and select Edit. My current setting, the
> default, is this:
> 
>  rundll32.exe url.dll,TelnetProtocolHandler %l
> 
> If you replace this with the path and filename of the utility you
> want to use in quotes, followed by %1, I believe it will work. For
> example, I did change the telnet utility in my system, and this is
> what I have for telnet:
> 
>  "C:\Program Files\IPapps\CRT\Crt.exe"  %1
> 
> I hope this helps!
> 
> 
> 
> 
>     Walt  <http://people.delphi.com/walthowe>
Jean-Marc Edwards
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