Telnet negotiation - Not a defect: a feature!

[Pete Resnick]

tif at doorstop.austin.ibm.com (Paul Chamberlain) writes:

>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?

Yes. If there is no entry in /etc/ports, it sets it to 'dumb'.

Dumb.

pr
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