Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!syntron!jtsv16!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!mailrus!cwjcc!pirate!chet From: chet@pirate.CWRU.EDU (Chet Ramey) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Specification of Berkeley networking utilities Message-ID: <211@cwjcc.CWRU.Edu> Date: 25 Oct 88 19:20:45 GMT Article-I.D.: cwjcc.211 References: <845@acer.stl.stc.co.uk> <1988Oct24.200243.19459@utzoo.uucp> Sender: news@cwjcc.CWRU.Edu Reply-To: chet@pirate.UUCP (Chet Ramey) Organization: CWRU Andrew R. Jennings Computing Center Lines: 27 In article <1988Oct24.200243.19459@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: >In article <845@acer.stl.stc.co.uk> grn@stl.stc.co.uk () writes: >>Is there a public domain specification of the Berkeley networking >>utilities such as rlogin? > > Berkeley? Document their protocols? It is to laugh! (Or >maybe to cry...) Mike Karels said last year that he was avoiding making the `r-series' protocol specs public (i.e. documenting them) because he was lobbying some people to add extensions to Telnet to do the stuff that rlogin does (e.g. pass the environment). He said he hoped that if that stuff got into Telnet, rlogin and friends could just fade away quietly without proliferating. (Christ, Henry, don't you ever have anything nice to say about Berkeley? Even once? (Henry? Say something nice about Berkeley? It is to laugh! :-)) Chet Ramey Chet Ramey chet@cwjcc.CWRU.EDU Network Management Group chet@alpha.CES.CWRU.EDU Andrew R. Jennings Computing Center chet@pirate.CWRU.EDU Case Western Reserve University