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rsaix 7.6H: telnet

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Tue Dec 28 16:14:52 1993

To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 93 16:14:44 EST
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>

System name:		oliver
Type and version:	POWER 7.6H
Display type:		colorgda

What were you trying to do?
	telnet with a bogus value for TERM

What's wrong:
	telnet refuses to run

    <20> oliver:~> setenv TERM foobar
    tcsh: No entry for terminal type "foobar"
    tcsh: using dumb terminal settings.
    <21> oliver:~> telnet dt
    No terminfo entry for "foobar".
    Exit 1
	

What should have happened:
	It should have run.  It does so on all other platforms.

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