Telnet negotiation - Not a defect: a feature!

[Paul Chamberlain]

In article <1990Oct8.192405.19439 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> resnick at cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick) writes:
>But any time I log in over telnet, my terminal
>type gets set to whatever is in /etc/ports.

Just off the top of my head -- does this happen if /etc/ports doesn't
define what terminal it is?

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