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NAME
      xrlogin - start an xterm that uses rlogin or telnet to connect to a
      remote host

SYNOPSIS
      xrlogin [-l username] [-telnet] remote-host

DESCRIPTION
      Xrlogin opens an xterm window and runs rlogin or telnet to login to a
      remote host.

      Xrlogin automatically passes the -name argument to xterm with a value of
      "xterm-hostname" where hostname is the name of the remote host.  This
      allows the user to specify resources in their server's resource manager
      which are specific to xterms from a given host.  For example, this
      feature can be used to make all xterm windows to a given remote host be
      the same color or use a specific font or start up in a specific place on
      the screen.  Xrsh(1) passes the same string so they are compatible in
      this regard.

      Xrlogin specifies that the default title for the new xterm will be
      "hostname" where hostname is the name of the remote host.

      One could also use xrlogin's sister command xrsh(1) to open a window to a
      remote host.  In the case of xrsh, the xterm would run on the remote host
      and use X as the connection protocol while xrlogin would run the xterm on
      the local host and use rlogin or telnet as the connection protocol.  See
      xrsh(1) for a discussion of the merits of each scheme.

OPTIONS
      -l username
            When not using -telnet, use username as the id to login to the
            remote host.

      -telnet
            Use the -telnet protocol to open the connection instead of rlogin.
            In general rlogin is preferred because it can be configured to not
            prompt the user for a password.  Rlogin also automatically
            propagates window size change signals (SIGWINCH) to the remote host
            so that applications running there will learn of a new window size.
            Use of telnet provided mostly for hosts that don't support rlogin.

COMMON PROBLEMS
      Make sure that the local host is specified in the .rhosts file on the
      remote host or in the remote hosts /etc/hosts.equiv file.  See rlogin(1)
      for more information.

EXAMPLES
      xrlogin yoda
            Start a local xterm which connects to the remote host yoda using
            rlogin.



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      xrlogin -telnet c70
            Open a local xterm which connects to the remote host c70 using
            telnet.

SEE ALSO
      xrsh(1), rlogin(1), telnet(1)

AUTHOR
      Stephen Gildea <gildea@expo.lcs.mit.edu> and James J. Dempsey
      <jjd@bbn.com>.












































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