[maemo-users] Where is telnet?

From: Mark wolfmane at gmail.com
Date: Sat May 16 01:30:44 EEST 2009
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Matan Ziv-Av <matan at svgalib.org> wrote:
>
> Actually, the link you gave specifically says that WfW 3.11 shipped without
> TCP/IP support:
>
> "Windows for Workgroups 3.11 (originally codenamed Snowball) was released on
> 11 August 1993,[4] and shipped in November 1993.[5] It supported 32-bit file
> access, full 32-bit network redirectors, and the VCACHE.386 file cache,
> shared between them. The standard execution mode of the Windows kernel was
> discontinued in Windows for Workgroups 3.11.
>
> A Winsock package was required to support TCP/IP networking in Windows 3.x.
> Usually third-party packages were used, but in August 1994 Microsoft
> released an add-on package (codenamed Wolverine) that provided limited
> TCP/IP support in Windows for Workgroups 3.11."
>
>
>> See here:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_3.11
>
> --
> Matan Ziv-Av.                         matan at svgalib.org
>

You need to re-read that: it says: "an add-on package". In the case of
later versions of WFW, that meant it shipped with, just not
necessarily enabled.

Mark

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