ppg@oasis.icl.co.uk (Philippe Goujard) (05/01/91)
I'm currently developping a version of the ISO Virtual Terminal and I'm in charge of the Asynchronous mode and Telnet emulation. I have a good theorical knowledge of telnet (RFC854) and I can use telnet with our unix machines over TCP/IP. But for me it works more or less like rlogin. Therefore I cannot realy figure what is telnet used for (or was used as the rfc is from 1983). What do you use telnet for? (and why not "only" rlogin?) Do you use the "transmit binary" facility? If yes for what purpose? (transfering files, driving directly the screen?, ...) Do you use facilities like "Are You There" or "Abort Output" or "Transmit Go Ahead"? Please reply by email, I will post a summary if enough interest. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Philippe GOUJARD Email : ppg@oasis.icl.co.uk "Another version of MS/DOS is called OS/2" : ICL News ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
magnus%thep.lu.se@Urd.lth.se (Magnus Olsson) (05/02/91)
In article <9105011358.AA23292@ozone.oasis.icl.stc.co.uk> ppg@oasis.icl.co.uk (Philippe Goujard) writes: >I have a good theorical knowledge of telnet (RFC854) and I can use telnet >with our unix machines over TCP/IP. But for me it works more or less like >rlogin. Therefore I cannot realy figure what is telnet used for (or was used >as the rfc is from 1983). For example, if you want to log in on a machine that doesn't run Unix - (at least I haven't found out any way to rlogin on a VMS box). Such machines do exist, incredible though it may seem... Magnus Olsson | \e+ /_ Dept. of Theoretical Physics | \ Z / q University of Lund, Sweden | >----< Internet: magnus@thep.lu.se | / \===== g Bitnet: THEPMO@SELDC52 | /e- \q
jws@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com (John Stafford) (05/08/91)
The main use for telnet can be summed up for me as 1. All the world isn't Unix as I have used it to talk to non-Unix systems which support the telnet protocol but for which the concept of rlogin and .rhosts and /etc/host.equiv would be a bit foreign.
bellman@lysator.liu.se (Thomas Bellman) (05/13/91)
jws@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com (John Stafford) writes: > The main use for telnet can be summed up for me as > 1. All the world isn't Unix I haven't seen this mentioned before, but one very useful use of the BSD telnet program (but not the telnet protocol), is that you can connect to other ports than 23. Very useful if you want to test any network based program. You can e g use the telnet program to play MUD or forge News articles >:-> -- Thomas Bellman, Lysator Computer Club ! "Make Love - Nicht Wahr" Linkoping University, Sweden ! "Too much of a good thing is e-mail: Bellman@Lysator.LiU.Se ! WONDERFUL." -- Mae West