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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!chi-news.cic.net!feeder.chicago.cic.net!newsxfer.nether.net!141.211.144.12!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news.mtu.edu!msunews!gvsu!river.it.gvsu.edu!behrensm From: behrensm@river.it.gvsu.edu (Matt Behrens) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Difference between rlogin and telnet Date: 3 Jun 1997 20:41:32 GMT Organization: Grand Valley State University Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5n1vhs$jbs@news.gvsu.edu> References: <864993028.196308@reef.island.net.au> <5mmvkd$8kq@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> <5mn8in$dve@netaxs.com> <5mn9i9$4ts@tooting.netapp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: river.it.gvsu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42262 Guy Harris (guy@netapp.com) wrote: : (Now, there *is* the issue of what you send over the wire with the : terminal-type option; the RFC says you should use one of the terminal : types from the "Assigned Numbers" RFC, but the BSD Telnets have, at : least in the past, ignored that and just sent the value of $TERM. I : suppose that allows one to handle terminals not in the terminal type : list, but it could cause problems if one of the systems involved doesn't : happen to use the same terminal-type names that UNIX "termcap" and : "terminfo" databases use....) I know it causes me problems. My school's HP-UX machine doesn't know what "cons25" is. -- Matt Behrens Zigg Computer Services zigg@iserv.net http://www.iserv.net/~zigg/