[I have just posted this to a couple of newsgroups. It's very suitable for netbooting, I successfully ran telnet off a diskless AT with 384kB XMS a moment ago.] Hello, I have been fixing the last NCSA PC/Telnet sources ever released, version 2.308. In short, I achieved these two important things: + Configuration obtained via BOOTP, no config.tel needed + Ifdefed out lots of stuff to shrink the footprint The upshot is that it is possible to fit a minimal DOS, Packet Driver and the NCSA telnet binary on a single, universal floppy; or in a network boot image that can be downloaded via Ethernet. Names are looked up via DNS so again no config.tel needed here. Both sources and binaries for the updated NCSA Telnet are available. For the full story see: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/9247/ncsatel.html (You might want to disable Javascript to avoid annoying ads. Sorry.) NCSA PC/Telnet is public domain and has not been supported by NCSA for a long time now, according to the documentation. So please don't bother them about any problems, bother me. My changes are public domain too. Please feel free to distribute at will. Ken
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