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From: milburn@ux3.lbl.gov (John Milburn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Origin of rlogin
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Date: 17 Feb 89 07:28:25 GMT
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In article <4310029@hpindda.HP.COM> human@hpindda.HP.COM (Aaron Schuman) writes:
>That's because the BSD utmp structure has a field for the remote host,
>and the System V utmp structure, from which ours is derived, does not.
>The answer is "no, you can't."

>We would like to fix this, but we need "marketing data" to support the
>need.  Would you please gripe to HP support about this?  Thanks.

Please mark me as having griped. The trouble with griping to the local HP
support people is that one has no confidence that the complaint is heard
by the proper people at the factory. One would suspect that at some point
simple features could be added by informed technical folk without
the expense and lethargy of "marketing data".

John Milburn - CAD System Manager - Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
(JEMilburn@lbl.gov)