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Subject: Re: REMOTE_HOST & REMOTE_USER
To: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich)
Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 16:15:00 -0500 (CDT)
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> The problem is all those programs have a single process handling all
> communications, so the model wouldnt map to multiple telnetd's, unless there
> was some well to telnetd to open a pipe back to a socket or somesuch.

Not all. UNIX based BBSes are typically written to run from getty. If telnetd
would just serve as getty it'd make things a lot easier.