Subject: NCTU Telnet 2.0 (Enhanced NCSA Telnet 2.3.06)

From: Chih-Hsien Huang <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1993 21:46:50 +0800

Campus Computer Communication Association
National Chiao Tung University
Hsinchu, Taiwan                                           Oct 31, 1993

      Enhanced NCSA Telnet 2.3.06 (NCTU Modified Version 2.0)

INTRODUCTION

 NCTU  Telnet is  a 8-bit  clean  enhanced  NCSA Telnet  2.3.06 (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 2.3.06
(ADAPTED FROM UPDATE.TEL)

>When FTP'ing to a PC running this Telnet,  directories now show up in
  the 'ls' (NLST) command.

>Alt-I no longer gives you the time of day.

>Fixed  retransmission  bug  which  caused  flooding  of  network with
  duplicate packets.  There's another similar bug still out there.

>Vsinterf.c changed to facilitate some ASCII graphics.

 Please note that  in the second  bug fixed,  NCSA claimed  they fixed
 retransmission bug but admited there's another similiar bug still out
 there.   As we tested,  the improvement was limited,  but better than
 previous version.

 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.

FILES

 Because of the very serious bug of FTP program  from NCSA Telnet that
 may cause hundreds of possible retransmissions for outing packets and
 flooding of network as we tested, this new version of  NCTU Telnet is
 distributed together with  WATTCP's FTP.EXE.  It is stable, clean and
 fast with some very good features, such as, paging when doing a "dir"
 displaying multiple-line informative messages from many anonymous ftp
 archives without any problem and showing transmission status in byte.

 See also MANIFEST.

INSTALLATION

 Please read INSTALL.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

 See also README.TEL

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]

--
Huang, Chih-Hsien
Administrator of  NCTUCCCA.edu.tw  [140.111.1.10]  Anonymous FTP Archive
Rm 101, Computer Center, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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