Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Cisco terminal server
Message-ID: <1989Jun5.162118.10240@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <3442@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 89 16:21:18 GMT

In article <3442@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> dyer@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM (Steve Dyer) writes:
>I understand that the rlogin protocol isn't supposed to be transparent, but
>it was literally never a problem in this particular installation.

Transparency problems can be very data-specific.  Things go along fine with
normal traffic until some clever lad decides to use ~~~~~~~~~~~ as a divider
line in his mail, at which point the connection dies every time uucico tries
to transmit that line.  (The troublesome patterns vary, of course, depending
on what equipment and software is involved.)  Don't assume that you can get
away with it in future just because you got away with it in the past.
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