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- From: guru@camelot.bradley.edu (Jerry Whelan)
- Subject: Re: rlogin - how to pass data to
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.175758.20194@bradley.bradley.edu>
- Keywords: rlogin
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- Organization: The Smelly Ditch
- References: <1992Dec31.233038.10090@uunet!fdls!agdept>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 17:57:58 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.233038.10090@uunet!fdls!agdept> walker@uunet!fdls!agdept (Walker) writes:
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- -} As far as I can tell, environmental variables on the host are not passed to
- -} the remote machine during the rlogin process. So, I'm seeking advice from
- -} the net on how to get data about which data base application to select
- -} passed to the remote login.
-
- I believe that the TERM variable is passed across and rlogin. The
- trick is to stuff the information you need in the TERM variable before
- rlogining and then unstuff it as soon as you login to the host.
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