Use Host Presenter (Novell). The following instructions assume you're logged onto the LAN and have program manager open.
Look in the Express program group for a Torres Terminal icon. If one is present, skip down to the begin of the next paragraph. If there is not a Torres Terminal icon in the Express group, you'll have to create one youself. To do this, open the DEC Access program group. Select the Host Presenter icon by clicking on it once. Select File | Copy from the Program Manager menu. Specify that the file is to be copied to the Express group and click on the Okay button. Close the DEC Access group. Open the Express group and select the Host Presenter icon by clicking on it once. Select File | Properties from the Program Manager menu and make the enter the following information:
| Description | Torres ANSI Terminal |
| Command Line | presentr.exe p:\net\profile\torres.php |
| Working Directory | f:\ |
| Shortcut Key | None |
Click on the Okay button.
Double click on the Torres terminal icon to start host presenter. Enter you Login ID and password when prompted to do so. You should now be connected to Torres.
X Terminal Sessions with Windows 3.11 on MSOE's LAN
Use DEC's eXcursions X terminal software. The following instructions assume you're logged onto the LAN and have program manager open.
Double click on the Torres Terminal icon in the eXcursions Applications program group. This should open an X Windows connection to Torres and start a terminal session. I sometimes get error messages when I first start typing. I click on Okay on the error box and things seem to return to normal.
VT-100 (ANSI) Termial Sessions with Windows 95 on MSOE's LAN
Use Host Presenter or MicroSoft's Windows 95 Telnet utility. See instructions above or below.
X Termial Sessions with Windows 95 on MSOE's LAN
Use DEC's eXcursions X terminal software. See instructions above.
VT-100 (ANSI) Termial Sessions via Telnet with Windows 3.11
Download a Telnet terminal program from the Internet.
VT-100 (ANSI) Termial Sessions via Telnet with Windows 95
Use the Telnet program that comes with Windows 95. The Windows 95 Telnet utility is called telnet.exe and is in the Windows directory.
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Dr. Charles S. Tritt
This page last updated 9/10/97