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to: Diamond Dave
from: Digital Man
date: 2023-04-10 16:20:00
subject: Login to SBBS from Window

  Re: Login to SBBS from Windows GUI
  By: Diamond Dave to Digital Man on Mon Apr 10 2023 06:35 pm

 >   Re: Login to SBBS from Windows GUI
 >   By: Digital Man to Diamond Dave on Sun Apr 09 2023 11:50 am
 >
 >  > Check your setting of File->Properties->Login Command. I'm guessing it's
 >  > dif
 >
 >  > If it's just "telnet://localhost" (which I think is still the default),
 >  > then at happens. If SyncTERM is registered as the "telnet:" handler, then
 >  > it shou
 >
 > I did a fresh install of 3.19 on Windows 11 (which only comes in 64-bit).
 > The default was telnet://127.0.0.1. I changed it to telnet://localhost and
 > still no effect. Yet if I do telnet://localhost from the Run command, it
 > works just fine.
 >
 > Still no idea why it doesn't work in 64-bit, but fine in 32-bit.

32-bit vs 64-bit isn't the issue. It's the protocol handler for the URIs that use the "telnet:" scheme. If you add/update your Windows associaton for the "telnet:" URI to point to a telnet/terminal program, it should work again. It has nothing to do with the OS being 64-bit.
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