Re: Telnet app

[Stephanos Piperoglou <sp249 cam ac uk>]

On Thu, 14 May 1998, Soren Harward wrote:

> I've noticed that of all the little 'net apps in the works, none of them
> have anything to do with telnet.  I might be making a huge faux pas right
> here--someone please correct me if I'm wrong because I'm not actually
> running GNOME at this point.  I think that it might be handy to have a
> little menu or something that the user could click on that launches a
> telnet window or something and starts a telnet link to the desired host
> automatically.  I hate to come up with an idea an then have to ask someone
> else to do it, but I'm simply not knowledgable enough about programming to
> do this myself.  If nobody wants to do this, then I guess I'll just start
> learning C++ and GTK and four years from now have a working program.....

I think it would be easier to just load telnet on gnome-terminal. Downside
to this is that you don't have any run-time options to telnet, but you
rarely need these anyway.

Now if I could just get gnome-terminal to *work* on my system... 

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