Hello Folks: I have just recently signed up for a free Unix shell account at the Telnet site "sdf.lonestar.org" This site will offer you free access to Linux Pine in Telnet session plus a few other freebie goodies. If you want to pay them they will give you access to some more goodies. I really enjoy very much what I am getting absolutely for free. I like it so much that I will soon be paying them to provide me with some more goodies.
One drawback to this Telnet site is that it doesn't seem to like either the DOS Telnet client offered as a free APM in DOS Arachne (TN3270.EXE, aka. CUTCP) and it doesn't like the Telnet client built in to Nettamer. Both of these two Telnet clients have always worked just fine on all the other Telnet sites I have used. These Telnet clients will usually connect with the site "sdf.lonestar.org", but the prompts will not appear for login and password. I have found that I can generally connect very reliably to "sdf.lonestar.org" and enter my login and password and use the service just fine if I connect with the Telnet client that comes with BasicLinux. Also the service works very well with a freeware Window$ client known as YAWTEL32. (YAWTEL32 used to be a shareware program, but nowadays the author, Hans Von Oostrom, is giving out a universal registration code for free just for the asking by email. Quite unlike most Window$ programs, this one is truly excellent and it has no superfluous bells and whistles and bloat. The latest version is 0.9.32.2, dated 8-16-96.) I think it is very strange that you can get into "sdf.lonestar.org" with a Linux Telnet client or with a Window$ Telnet client, but not with a DOS Telnet client. I have no idea why this should be so. Regards, Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
