[WEB4LIB] Re: Telnet and Fortres/Bypassing

[John T. Benedetto]

On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, HIS wrote:

> Older versions of Netscape (3.0 and it's strains) were telnet compliant
> with Fortress.  Once I put communicator in, I noticed that with Fortress
> enabled it will not allow you to telnet://mysite.com anymore.  So far I
> haven't found a workaround, until then I put the Windows telnet icon on the
> desktop, with a "see librarian" first note attached.  
> 
> I'm looking forward to anyone sharing their workaround on this.  

What version of Fortres do you have?  We have had a number of the 4.0x
 versions running, and have had no trouble with telnet at all. We are
running Fortres 2.5 (I think) with QVT/Term or Windows Telnet coming up
fine for us in that manner.

- John

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