> >> >Getting a prompt and login from Telnet was possible on OS/2 when it
> >> >wasn't standard in NT.
> >>
> >> Possible != standard.
>
> >Yup... Possible=standard. You just have to enable it in the configs
> >and have the services start at boot time. (They even can run out of
> >inetd.conf.)
>
> But was it shipped with a telnet daemon in the box?
Yup it shipped with it in c:\tcpip\bin, I think.
> And why wouldn't it run out of inetd.conf, isn't that standard behaviour?
It would... or you could run it as a detached background job without
inetd -- like doing telnetd &
IIRC -- all configurable and it could use a Unix like password file... so a
little cut and paste and you had telnet and ftp services like a linux box.
(and time and echo and all the little TCP/IP servers were there...)
>
> >OS/2 is pretty slick for an OS that runs Win apps.
>
> Once again, I beg to differ.
>
Bill
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Received on Fri Jun 29 2001 - 16:19:17 BST