This message may be of interest to those people who telnet to NFB NET.ORG.
David Andrews
>From: Doug Lee <dgl@visi.com>
>Subject: My so-far favorite Telnet for Windows 95 with speech
>After some considerable poking around with AltaVista, I turned up a
>Windows 95 "console application" version of Telnet. "Console application"
>means it will run in what looks to us like a DOS box, even though that
>isn't technically what's going on underneath. The upshot, though, is that
>you can use a DOS screen reader with it and run it inside a DOS box under
>Windows 95. I prefer DOS screen readers whenever I am dealing with
>terminal-type or line-by-line programs, such as Telix, FTP, Telnet, etc.
>(The Windows 95 standard FTP program is a console app also.)
>
>The URL for this Telnet program is
>http://www.chrysalis.org/jbj/
>>From there, select the "Console Telnet" link.
>
>This Telnet uses Windows 95 Dial-Up Networking, just like the standard
>Windows Telnet does--hence, no need for a packet driver.
>
>There is only one major problem I have had with this Telnet, and this
>problem applies to many console apps out there: Any speech command you
>type will also be acted upon by Telnet, unless you configure Telnet to
>prevent this (more on how to do this in a moment). For example, if you
>are using Artic Business Vision, and you try to move your Artic cursor up
>one line with a numpad-8, your Artic cursor will indeed move, and a
>surprise up-arrow code sequence will also be sent to your current Telnet
>host (assuming you are using VT-100 terminal emulation here). The way
>around this is to alter a file called KEYS.CFG to disable all the speech
>command keys you plan to use. This is a bit tedious, but it only has to
>be done once. I have not finished my own KEYS.CFG alteration for Artic
>Business Vision, but I have done enough of it to function in most
>situations without unexpected key transmissions. Using Artic's "key
>watchdog" might well work, but I consider this a dangerous approach,
>particularly in Windows 95, and particularly in my situation, since I load
>BV before I load Windows (hmm... what happens if Artic "steels" the
>keyboard from all of Windows ? Hmm.... :-) ).
>
>I have experimented with about five Telnet programs I found, not including
>the one that comes with Windows 95. So far, the one whose URL I gave
>above seems the most usable with a DOS screen reader in a DOS box under
>Windows 95. If anyone's mileage varies, I'd appreciate emailed odometer
>readings. :-)
>
>Doug Lee, Computer Instructor
>BLIND, Inc. (Blindness: Learning In New Dimensions)
>Personal account: dgl@visi.com
>Student/staff account: blindinc@visi.com
>
>
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