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From: mi@cs.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Rlogin on connection drop
Date: 15 Aug 1995 03:38:01 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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Some time ago (14 Aug 1995 10:18:32 +0200) honorable J Wunsch, 
residing at j@bonnie.heep.sax.de wrote:

|The general use of ``kill -9'' (and its propagation e.g. in Usenet) is
|one of the biggest sins.  It's just firing the big gun, instead of
|asking ``Hey you, get out of my way!''.

Yes, but putting -9 aside, why does not csh react on typing after rlogin
was killed (not with -9 -- with -1 or with default)? It gives a prompt, but
that's it... Will check it with recently installed tcsh...
	-mi
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