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From: gumby@Cygnus.COM (David Vinayak Wallace)
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Subject: Magic cookies over Telnet
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Date: 13 Aug 90 19:48:07 GMT
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   Date: 13 Aug 90 13:22:51 GMT
   From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield)

   Please don't use rlogin, which is a BSD-centric UNIXism, as a basis
   for anything.  Instead, look at RFC1091 terminal type negotiation.

Or better, look at protocols like SUPDUP, which gets away from
terminal NAMES and just talks about terminal CAPABILITIES.

It amazed me that when Unix finally got a window system, the first
thing implemented was an emulator for a specific kind of terminal!