FreeLists / arachne / [arachne] Re: telnet 'loop'.....

["Glenn McCorkle" <glennmcc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:27:09 +1030, Greg Mayman wrote:

> One of my friends claims that he cannot connect to the bulletin board at
> http://www.docsplace.org/

> Personally, I suspect he is not driving his Windoze computer properly.
> However, to check it, I connected to the site, clicked on the "BBS
> telnet" icon on the left and got connected to the BBS.

> It asked me my first and last names, then told me I wasn't a registered
> user, and asked if I wanted to register (y/n).

> All straightforward so far. I typed "N" and hit return and telnet
> appeared to exit, but restarted again at the login screen.

> The same thing happened when I tried to Alt-X out of telnet.

> Eventually I had to reset the computer to get out of it.

> Has anyone else had this problem with telnet?

> Is there a simple answer?

Just now had a look a t it.... docsplace.org is a framed site.

Before taking the lionk to login via telnet...
Rt_click somewhere within that frame so that just
the one frame is on-screen.

Now take the link to BBS telnet and should go well.

In those cases whe nyou _do_ get caught in a loop....
just after answering 'Yes' to the BBS question of
'are you sure you want to quit'... press Ctrl+Break

That should break you out of the loop and probably
back to the DOS command prompt where you can then
re-start Arachne.


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