Re: Login to SBBS from Windows GUI
  By: MRO to Digital Man on Sun Apr 09 2023 09:30 pm

 >   Re: Login to SBBS from Windows GUI
 >   By: Digital Man to Diamond Dave on Sun Apr 09 2023 11:50 am
 >
 >  > 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.
 >
 > i'm not running windows 11 but i have 10.  the telnet handler works.
 > also works in sbbs control panel.

Cool, good to know not all hope is lost.
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