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From: mckee@MITRE.ARPA (H. Craig McKee)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Specification of Berkeley networking utilities
Message-ID: <8810271656.AA02033@mitre.arpa>
Date: 27 Oct 88 16:56:49 GMT
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Barry Margolin (Thinking Machines Corp) writes:

>The problem isn't that TELNET can't do what RLOGIN does, it's that
>nobody bothered to define the necessary TELNET enhancements before
>RLOGIN proliferated.  I think it's too late, and anyone who thinks
>that RLOGIN can be phased out is dreaming.

As if TELNET and RLOGIN weren't enough, there are folks busily 
developing a new standard for the ISO Virtual Terminal Protocol.