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to: Diamond Dave
from: Nightfox
date: 2023-04-11 15:06:00
subject: Re: Login to SBBS from Wi

  Re: Re: Login to SBBS from Windows GUI
  By: Diamond Dave to Digital Man on Tue Apr 11 2023 04:10 pm

 DD> "telnet localhost"

 DD> Works great from the CMD prompt, not from the SBBS GUI. Found out it just
 DD> can't find it from GUI in the default location. Copy the telnet.exe
 DD> executable to a location where the SBBS GUI can find it, and it magically
 DD> works. :) 

If that works from the command prompt, then I'd think 'telnet' is in your system path variable, and thus should also work from the SBBS GUI - unless somehow the SBBS GUI has a different system environment with a path variable that doesn't include the path to telnet..?

Nightfox

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