Re: lynx-dev Telnet Problem with Win32 Lynx

[Keith Russell]

Dean, I am trying to telnet TO Lynx on an NT, not telnet out.

The info-ardent list is a good suggestion. Thanks.

Keith

On Wed, 8 Jul 1998 09:34:49 +0100 , you wrote:

>
>Keith, 
>
>I have tried this on my PC and found no problem
>connecting lynx to telnet://mymachine. I got the usual
>UniVerse prompts for user/passwd/account. What Telnet
>client is your Lynx launching ? What version of UV ?
>Are you redirecting output to a file, which would
>generate the same message ? Have you tried the info-ardent
>list as well ?
>
>Cheers, Dean
>---
>Dean Walker
>mailto:address@hidden
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Wayne Buttles [mailto:address@hidden
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 1998 7:13 PM
>> To: Keith Russell
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> Subject: Re: lynx-dev Telnet Problem with Win32 Lynx
>> 
>> 
>> Can you change their shells environment?  Lynx is asking the 
>> window what
>> its size is and it is being told 0x0.  If you can SET LINES=24 and SET
>> COLS=80 I think it would run correctly. 
>> 
>> On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Keith Russell wrote:
>> 
>> > I downloaded lynx_32.zip and installed it at a customer NT 
>> site (version
>> > 2.8.1dev.16). It runs fine locally, and also if we connect 
>> through PC
>> > Anywhere or through a third-party telnet client.
>> > 
>> > However, the customer is running Ardent's UniVerse DBMS 
>> with Ardent's
>> > telnet server software. When we try to run Lynx through 
>> Ardent's telnet
>> > server, we get the following error message, and Lynx will not run:
>> > 
>> > initscr():LINES=0 COLS=0:too small
>> > 
>> > Ardent says the problem is in Lynx and not in their 
>> software. I searched
>> > the Lynx-Dev archives back to January '97 and could not 
>> find a mention
>> > of this problem. Has anyone else come across it?
>> > 
>> > I'm quite frustrated at this point, because we are trying to solve a
>> > unique problem for this high-profile customer, and we thought we had
>> > finally found a solution in Lynx. And now it won't run....
>> > 
>> > Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
>> > 
>> > Keith Russell
>> > 
>> 
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