PC-NFS and 'rlogin'

[Tim Folkard]

We have various problems with the 'telnet' program supplied with PC-NFS,
and would like to run 'rlogin' (which is not supplied with PC-NFS)
instead.  Can anyone help with the following questions ?

1)  PC-NFS does have an 'rsh' command; is there any way of using this to
simulate an 'rlogin' ?  I've tried 'rsh -i <host> csh' and get part way
there, but have no terminal type set.

2)  Is there a version of 'rlogin' for MS-DOS that is likely to co-exist
happily with PC-NFS (i.e. use same device drivers, etc) ?

3)  If all else fails, and we purchase the 'PC-NFS Programmers Toolkit',
are the sources of 'rlogin' available so that we could roll our own ?
Would this be possible under MS-DOS?

Many Thanks,

  Tim Folkard
                ( JANET: tim at uk.ac.mrc.not-ihr
                ( Post:  MRC Institute of Hearing Research
                (        Nottingham University,    NG7 2RD
                (        England
                ( Tel:   0602-223431
                ( Fax:   0602-423710


P.S. For those who are interested, our problems with 'telnet' are :-

*  It by-passes the ANSI.SYS device driver for the PC screen & keyboard;
   this prevents us from displaying (tek 4010) graphics generated on the
   Sun, and prevents us from re-mapping keys (with ascii codes > 128)
   that cause problems for applications running on the Sun.

*  On another Unix machine (a Masscomp 6600) the implementation of
   'telnet' is SLOW.  Terminal response times are far better if we
   telnet to sun, then rlogin to masscomp, than if we telnet to
   masscomp directly.

*  It's a pain having to provide name & password all over again for
   'telnet'; PC-NFS already knows them.