rlogin (and/or /bin/login) under SCO Xenix and TCP/IP

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In article <778 at tiamat.fsc.com> jim at tiamat.fsc.com (Jim O'Connor) writes:
>I have recently discovered that when doing an "rlogin" from hostA to
>hostB (where hostA is any TCP/IP machine, and hostB is an SCO Xenix
>machine, running TCP/IP 1.0.1h), that hostB does not correctly set
>TERM to whatever value it was on hostA.  In all cases, TERM is always
>set to "unknown" by the SCO machine.
>
>Am I missing something obvious, or is SCO's rlogind/login combo
>broken?
>
>Thanks for any help.
>--jim
>------------- 
>James B. O'Connor			jim at tiamat.fsc.com
>Ahlstrom Filtration, Inc.		615/821-4022 x. 651

It's broken on mine also.  I have inserted the following line in my .login
which at least offers me my favorite terminal if the system doesn't know what
the terminal is.


set term = (`tset -m ansi:ansi -m :\?ansi -r -S -I -Q`)


(replace ansi with your favorite terminal.)


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