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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Pass environment through rlogin
Message-ID: <1989Nov21.215556.14369@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 21 Nov 89 21:55:56 GMT
References: <696@cs.wmich.edu> <1989Nov21.040936.10463@athena.mit.edu> <14137@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Reply-To: dce@icky.Sony.COM (David Elliott)
Organization: Sony Microsystems Corp.
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In article <14137@boulder.Colorado.EDU> skwu@boulder.Colorado.EDU (WU SHI-KUEI) writes:
>Once more already yet again, Jonathan is wroooong!!!  System V (and even
>never made available Release 4 before it) 'login' allows setting
>environmental variables on the command line.

I'm confused.  Are we talking about the same thing?  I don't even
see 'login' mentioned in Jonathon's article.

Maybe you could explain how having a version of login that allows
setting of environment variables on the command line relates to
the problem with rlogin not passing them.

Maybe the real moral is that the world is not all System V?

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