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From: schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de (Georg Schwarz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Weird NCSA Telnet vs BSDI/Linux bug
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 12:59:11 +0100
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David Shaw <dshaw@cs.jhu.edu> wrote:

> Okay folks - here's a weird one:
> 
> Using NCSA telnet 2.7b4 on a Mac, trying to telnet to any BSDI or Linux
> machine, if you type a control-c you can reliably crash the Mac.  Total
> lockup, nothing to do but reboot. 

fortunately that particlar thing does not happen on my Mac (LC II, 7.1,
MacTCP 2.0.6) when I use NCSA Telnet to connect to a Linux machine.
However, there are a few other situations where I can reliably crash
NCSA Telnet on my Mac, too. The b in 2.7b4 is quite justified. :-(
It's a big shame NCSA dropped development of Telnet.
BTW, it looks to me as if Sydney Urshan Music's Interscript Demo 1.0,
although not labelled beta, still does have the same bugs. :-(
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Georg Schwarz     schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de, kuroi@cs.tu-berlin.de
Institut für Theoretische Physik       +49 30 314-24254, FAX -21130
Technische Universität Berlin        http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/