BRUCE WILSON said to DOUG WILSON on 10-11-97:
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DW> Thanks to Isaac Grover for pointing me to the MicroLink bbs.
DW> Even though I have not found any Fido-carrying bulletin boards
DW> in my new location, I can telnet to MicroLink and grab this
DW> echo.
BW| Nice to see you back!  Which version of Telix are you using these
  | days (and is there any way to use it as a telnet client)?
Yep, the Wilson Boys are reunited once again ..
Am using TFW 1.15d as my Telnet client and it works quite well, being
one of the few telnet agents that does a good job of supporting
zmodem transfers both for uploading and downloading.
I see several others have already given you some of the lowdown on
how to set TFW up for telnetting.  I am running mine slightly
differently, using a separate configuration for use as a telnet
client:
  Load the program, reconfigure the default Connect Device to TELNET,
  then save the new configuration under a different name - I used
  TELNET.CFG (duh!!!).
  Although this is not strictly necessary, I found it less confusing
  to create a separate dialing directory, listing just my telnettable
  destinations.  As others have mentioned, just put the telnet
  address in the primary phone number space in the directory.
  Since I run this under the configuration that has TELNET as the
  default connect device, I just have each entry set for DEFAULT
  connect device, but you may wish to have them set for TELNET just
  to be sure.  I saved this phonebook directory as TELNET.FBK.
  Now create a TFW-Telnet shortcut icon.  Specify the command line
  that the icon represents (right-click on the new icon, click on
  Properties, then Shortcut, and modify the Target command line) to
  tell it to use the new cfg and fbk files.  For my setup, the
  command line is "C:\TFW\telix.exe -Ctelnet.cfg -Ftelnet.fbk".  It
  is actually sort of surprising that TFW doesn't let you configure
  the name of the phonebook file under "filenames" but since it
  doesn't you have to specify it on the command line.
  I've placed an INTERNET folder on my desktop, and placed all my
  internet-related shortcut icons in it - the dialer for my ISP, my
  browser, TFW-Telnet, etc.  So I just open this folder, connect to
  my ISP, then select whichever application I want to run.
One of the nicest things about using TFW as a telnet client is that
you continue using your familiar interface, plus still have all of
Telix' great scripting capabilities to automate your connections.
Most things work as expected.  One nicely-thought-out difference is
that the SALT carrier() function works differently under Telnet - now
instead of monitoring the modem connection (of COURSE the modem is
connected, you're hooked up to your ISP) it instead monitors whether
there is an active Telnet connection - very handy.
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