In the telnet man pages there is something about an ENVIRON option that used to propagate custom environment variables to the target host. Here is the text from the man page: ENVIRONMENT Telnet uses at least the HOME, SHELL, DISPLAY, and TERM environment vari ables. Other environment variables may be propagated to the other side via the TELNET ENVIRON option. HOW is this optiopn used? Where can it be set? TIA - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org