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Re: Telnet Help needed
From:
March Hare <[log in to unmask]>
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Miami University VMS News <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 10 Feb 1994 20:12:33 -0500
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In article <[log in to unmask]>,
[log in to unmask] writes:
>   Well - this is just about the stupidest computer
> question I've ever asked... but here goes..
>
> I can NOT figure out how to connect to foreign hosts
> using (the "new") telnet using numerical addresses:
> ie: 129.74.116 , etc.
>
 
You are missing a number somewhere.  Internet addresses are 32-bit
integers, and they break down into 4 dotted decimal digits.  Notice
the following transcript:
 
Spawning subprocess
Trying... [129.74.0.116] %MULTINET-F-ETIMEDOUT, Connection timed out
 
It is looking for another digit, but it assumed a 0.
 
John
--
Drivel of the year:
"...DOS is utterly unable to handle more than 1MB of memory.  Removing
this limitation from DOS would result in something that just _isn't_
DOS any more--it wouldn't run existing DOS programs." -PC Mag, Nov 23,
1993.
---> OS/2? - what DOS could have been and would like to be.

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