Sangohn Christian wrote: > 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? Its use is described in the telnet(1) manpage. Note, however, that it won't be of much use if "login" clears the environment (which is quite common). > Where can it be set? It can be set at the telnet command prompt (which is usually obtained by typing "Ctrl-]"). -- Glynn Clements <glynn@sensei.co.uk> - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
