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Re: telnet -K/-safe options interacting poorly...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (brlewis@MIT.EDU)
Mon Mar 6 20:56:59 1995

From: brlewis@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 95 20:56:56 -0500
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[13288] in Athena Bugs"

Here is a patch to the man page that clarifies things a little.

*** 1.5	1995/01/28 15:08:15
--- telnet.1	1995/03/07 01:53:59
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*** 97,102 ****
--- 97,103 ----
  have already been forwarded into the local environment.
  .It Fl K
  Specifies no automatic login to the remote system.
+ This is the opposite of -a.
  .It Fl L
  Specifies an 8-bit data path on output.  This causes the
  BINARY option to be negotiated on output.
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*** 193,199 ****
  .It Fl x
  Turns on encryption of the data stream if possible.  This
  option is not available outside of the United States and
! Canada.
  For MIT Athena, this option is on by default.
  .It Ar host
  Indicates the official name, an alias, or the Internet address
--- 194,200 ----
  .It Fl x
  Turns on encryption of the data stream if possible.  This
  option is not available outside of the United States and
! Canada.  Requires the -a option for Kerberos authentication/encryption.
  For MIT Athena, this option is on by default.
  .It Ar host
  Indicates the official name, an alias, or the Internet address

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