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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Subject: Re: rsh protocol wanted
Message-ID: <1991May15.062437.29000@Think.COM>
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References: <423@mwuk.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 15 May 91 06:24:37 GMT

In article <423@mwuk.UUCP> tony@mwuk.UUCP (Tony Mountifield) writes:
>I want to write a server to run on a non-UNIX (OS-9) system to respond
>to rsh requests from our Sun-3.
>I have tried TFM for the Sun, but it doesn't seem to be there.

You didn't try hard enough.  See rshd(8).  In general, when protocols are
described, they are described in the manual page for the server, not the
client (because users who read the rsh(1) man page are interested in how to
use it, not how it works).
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Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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