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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Difference between rlogin and telnet Date: 1 Jun 1997 10:09:53 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5mrhph$40h@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <864993028.196308@reef.island.net.au> <5mmvkd$8kq@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> <5mn8in$dve@netaxs.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42005 heller@socko.cdnow.com (A. Karl Heller) wrote: > I believe rlogin also passes some terminal information that telnet does > not. Both pass the value of $TERM. Both can pass the window size settings, and window size change events. (That is, you enlarge your local xterm, and the `vi' running remotely gets a SIGWINCH for it.) Telnet support forwarding of arbitrary environmental variables however, so you usually even get your $DISPLAY forwarded. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)