On Windows 95 and 98 systems with a dial-up ISP, starting a telnet application such as TinyTERM can cause Windows Dial-Up Networking to launch, even if TinyTERM should connect over a LAN.

To stop this from happening, create a hosts file on the PC or edit the existing one (instructions). Add the IP address and hostname of the system you are connecting to.

If this procedure does not work, locate your dial-up networking connection file and rename it. Then start TinyTERM. You’ll get a message that the connection file can’t be found. In that message window will be an option not to connect to the Internet automatically. Check that box, then change the name of your dial-up connection back to the original name. The next time you start TinyTERM, the dialer won’t automatically open.

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