What is the use of Telnet?

[Magnus Olsson]

In article <9105011358.AA23292 at ozone.oasis.icl.stc.co.uk> ppg at oasis.icl.co.uk (Philippe Goujard) writes:
>I have a good theorical knowledge of telnet (RFC854) and I can use telnet
>with our unix machines over TCP/IP. But for me it works more or less like
>rlogin. Therefore I cannot realy figure what is telnet used for (or was used
>as the rfc is from 1983). 

For example, if you want to log in on a machine that doesn't run Unix -
(at least I haven't found out any way to rlogin on a VMS box). Such machines
do exist, incredible though it may seem...

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