Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 00:14:42 +0800
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: net.rc files
On Wed, 07 Mar 2001 06:22:27 -0600,
Thomas Burleigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Dear Tom,
Do you realise how html formatted messages look like so much junk
when read using DOS mail readers?
Philip
> Subject: Re: net.rc files
>
> <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
> <html>
> <tt>Wow! Using UNIX at this level takes me all the way back to my college
> days. (Don't ask how long ago that was - it's too depressing to think about...
> ;-)</tt>
> <p><tt>My own vague memories of the .netrc files seems to jive what your
> saying. For the non-UNIX initiates out there, this is basically a
> file that will automatically send userid and password when connected to
> a specified host.</tt>
> <p><tt>While this might make a nice addition to Net-Tamer, I'm really not
> seeing alot of use for out (save for a few UNIX junkies out there. :-)
> At least, not if the .netrc file is sitting on the host of the UNIX machine
> your connected to. (Which I didn't think NT supported anyway outside
> of Telnet - which is another animal. )</tt>
> <p><tt>Or, was your suggestion for NetTamer to have a functional equivalent
> on the client side? If so, this is already accomplished through the
> signon scripts - albeit with a different command syntax.</tt>
> <p><tt>Did this answer your question - or am I in a different ball park
> than you? :-)</tt>
> <br><tt>(I do have to agree with my fellow listers that your choice of
> words was difficult to follow...)</tt>
> <br>
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