On Sun, 9 Apr 2023 11:50:35 -0700
"Digital Man" (VERT)  wrote:

>   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.

I know on my Windows 10 system, the MS telnet client isn't installed as
default. You have to install it through "Turn windows features on or
off" >  Telnet client.
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