Re: Login to SBBS from Windows GUI
  By: Diamond Dave to All on Sun Apr 09 2023 01:58 pm

 > Question...
 >
 > This is nothing new, just wondering if it's a bug or just something in
 > Windows that we have to deal with...
 >
 > On 32-bit Windows, you can log on locally to SBBS from the GUI by selecting
 > BBS, then Login. Works great, been using it for years.
 >
 > On 64-bit Windows, this doesn't work. Every time I try to do it, it ignores
 > it.
 >
 > Doesn't matter what flavor of Windows (10 or 11) but it just never works. I
 > created an icon shortcut on the desktop to do a "telnet localhost" and that
 > is a good work around.
 >
 > So just wondering if it's a setting I'm missing, or is 64-bit Windows just
 > that way and that's just an annoyance that I'll have to deal with?

Check your setting of File->Properties->Login Command. I'm guessing it's different between your 32-bit and 64-bit Windows systems?

If it's just "telnet://localhost" (which I think is still the default), then that used to run whatever program was registered to handle the "telnet:" scheme in a URI. You can test that with the Windows-key-R (and just type "telnet://localhost") and see what happens. If SyncTERM is registered as the "telnet:" handler, then it should run SyncTERM (and used to), but I think that stopped working on newere Windows systems. Nothing to do with 32-bit versus 64-bit.
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