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From: jws@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com (John Stafford)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: What is the use of Telnet?
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Date: 8 May 91 06:05:07 GMT
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The main use for telnet can be summed up for me as

   1. All the world isn't Unix

as I have used it to talk to non-Unix systems which support
the telnet protocol but for which the concept of rlogin and
.rhosts and /etc/host.equiv would be a bit foreign.