Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!CAC.WASHINGTON.EDU!hubert From: hubert@CAC.WASHINGTON.EDU (Steve Hubert) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains Subject: Re: HINFO && rfc1010 && rfc1033 Message-ID: Date: 14 Jul 90 00:13:47 GMT References: <1990Jul13.132945.28115@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: inet Organization: The Internet Lines: 18 In <1990Jul13.132945.28115@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu writes: >... >I know of one program that does use the HINFO record and came across it at the >Pittsburg IETF meeting. The telnet program running on the VMS VAXstations >(Wollongong's, I believe) would display on the title bar: > > Connected to uxc.cso.uiuc.edu, a VAX-3500 running UNIX. > MultiNet does that on vms vaxes. I've stopped putting in WKS entries, too, since keeping up to date and correct versions of WKS's is also nearly impossible. I think there may be a small number of programs that try to use that information, too. Steve Hubert -------