Subject: NCTU Telnet 2.2 (Enhanced NCSA Telnet 2.3.07)

From: Chih-Hsien Huang <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1993 23:43:34 +0800

Campus Computer Communication Association
National Chiao Tung University
Hsinchu, Taiwan                                            Dec 6, 1993

      Enhanced NCSA Telnet 2.3.07 (NCTU Modified Version 2.2)

INTRODUCTION

 NCTU  Telnet is  a 8-bit  clean  enhanced  NCSA Telnet  2.3.07 (fully
 compatible). All messages are displayed in Chinese BIG5, if a Chinese
 System, currently ETen or other compatibles supported, is detected.

 This program  will be  quite  helpful,  especially to  those  who are
 interested in  some Chinese  BIG5 resources  in Taiwan,  for example,
 many documents  available at  NCTUCCCA.edu.tw  Anonymous FTP  Chinese
 Archive, a database  at MOECC  (with job information and other useful
 stuff), or  maybe the gopher  at gopher.csie.nctu.edu.tw  and library
 catalogs around the island.

WHAT'S NCSA TELNET?

 NCSA Telnet for the PC provides  interactive access from an IBM PC or
 compatible  to telnet hosts  on TCP/IP  networks.  NCSA Telnet  is an
 implementation of DARPA standard telnet with added features that take
 advantage of  the local processing power of the PC (adapted from NCSA
 Telnet manual chap 0).

BUGS FIXED FOR NCSA TELNET 2.3.07
(ADAPTED FROM UPDATE.TEL)

(1) Alt-E shells no longer crash.  The /Gs compiler option had to be added.
(2) 0 Byte transfers fixed.  For the most part.  Blank files are still created
    in some circumstances, but it no longer crashes.
(3) Hierarchical FTP permissions implemented.  See ftpnew.txt
    (**Password file format changed**)
(4) Setclock revised for MSC 7.0
(5) Local printing control amended.  ^[[4i? and ^[[5i parsed.
(6) Config.tel seconds/ticks resolved.  Everything is in seconds now.
    (**Config.tel file format changed**)
(7) Outgoing CR mapping changed.  Options for CR, or LF or CRNUL.
(8) Net14.not (note) corrected.  And example Net14 session added.
(9) Net14 repaired.
(10) UDP support enhanced.  A small change that won't affect anything.
(11) Window resize response makes sense.  Resize will now work.
(12) Colors fixed.  Colors are stable.  This means FTP will be visable, and
     color info will return when switching among sessions.
(13) FTP mget * will not try to get parent dir.  Removed . and .. from NLST.
(14) TCP reset port code corrected.  Code donation by Hsiao-yang Cheng.
(15) IP fragments now supported.  Code donation by Matthew Kaufman.
(16) Ftpbin output redirection improved.  Ftpbin now uses ncsaio.asm routines.
(17) Keyboard file read from specified location.  Keyboard file was read in
     from the directory Telnet was started from regardless of config.tel
     settings.
(18) Scrollback past first screen fixed.  Cut n Paste now work from any point
     in scrollback.
(19) Scrollback text copied after second spacebar.  It is no longer necessary
     to hit Alt-C, although this still works.
(20) Help & DOS-shell work from status screen.  You no longer need to have a
     connection open to get help or shell out to DOS.
(21) Couple other small things, somewhere, probably.

 SEE ALSO UPDATE.TEL.

ENHANCEMENT IN THIS VERSION
(ADEPTED FROM README.TEL)

>8-BIT USER INTERFACE.  You can view 8-bit characters on your terminal
  and cut/paste buffer.  This function is especially  for Chinese BIG5
  environment.

>CHINESE  BIG5  MESSAGES  if you  are under  ETen  compatible  Chinese
  environment.  Or you can add "-k" option  to force the appearence of
  Chinese BIG5 messages.

>DOMAIN QUERY TIME INTERVAL BUG FIXED.

>RECURSIVE  DOMAIN  NAME  QUERY.  This version of enhanced NCSA Telnet
  understands how to query a hostname and  defined domain recursively.
  For example, if I defined  my domain as  "csie.nctu.edu.tw", and try
  to  open  a   session   with  hostname   "nctuccca",  it   will  try
  "nctuccca.csie.nctu.edu.tw" first  but fail,  "nctuccca.nctu.edu.tw"
  second  but   fail  again,  and   finally  "nctuccca.edu.tw"   okay.
  Similarly, "ccsun1.cc" will  connect me to  "ccsun1.cc.nctu.edu.tw".
  However, "moers2.edu.tw." will  only try "moers2.edu.tw"  because it
  is ended with the ROOT DOMAIN ".".

>ANSI BUG FIXED.

>"Unknown TCP port rejection"  bug fixed.  With this serious (I think)
  bug fixed, some advantanges you may expect:
  a) More effectively whenever you want to connect to some hosts which
     have implemented IDENT queries or FINGER-back functions.
  b) You won't be confused by  lots of strange messages on your Telnet
     console.
  c) Slightly lower the load of network kernel of both your PC and the
     connecting hosts.  There won't be many idle  background daemon in
     the hosts which implement the FINGER-back scheme.

>Some minor modifications.

CHINESE SYSTEM YOU MAY NEED

 If you hope all NCTU Telnet messages displayed in Chinese BIG5, first
 you need a Chinese BIG5 system.  To our best knowledge, the only free
 one is  KuoChiao Chinese System (KC),  (available at  NCTUCCCA.edu.tw
 [140.111.1.10 or 192.83.166.10]  Anonymous  FTP  Chinese  Archive  in
 /Chinese/DOS/Chinese-Systems/KC). Please note that KC is copyrighted.
 Any  COMMERCIAL  activity  on this  package  will be  definitively in
 violation of the copyright law and MUST be prohibited.

MODIFIED BY

 Hsiao-Yang Cheng
 Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
 National Chiao Tung University
 HsinChu, Taiwan 300
 E-mail: <[email-masked]>

DISTRIBUTED BY

 Campus Computer Communication Association
 Room 101, Computer Center
 National Chiao Tung University
 Hsinchu, Taiwan 300
 TEL: 886-35-712121 EXT. 2714
 FAX: 886-35-714031
 E-mail: [email-masked]

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