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March 1999, Week 4

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Per Ostberg <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 23 Mar 1999 10:33:38 +0100
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Wirt writes (educational, as always):

> If you are currently using a DTC-based TAC card, I would immediately
abandon
> it for host-based telnet. The second question that people often ask
about
> their TAC cards is: "Can I upgrade it to current standards?" I'm sure
that the
> answer is no -- and will forever be no. In its day, the TAC card was a
> relatively expensive cost item; host-based telnet is free. Given the
> economics, I'm sure that no one will ever go back and upgrade the
card.

and makes me decide immediately on future strategy for our network
connections;-) however when doing y2k-testing on a smaller machine
(Telnetting/iX into it rather than Telnet/TAC) we discovered problems
with <BREAK> and ^Y, it seems not to 'filter through' Telnet/iX. I think
this has been discussed here, is this a problem? has it been fixed?
comments?

/per

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