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XRLOGIN(1)		    General Commands Manual		    XRLOGIN(1)

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

SYNOPSIS
       xrlogin [-l username] [-telnet] [xterm options] 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 com-
       patible 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.  This and the
       -name  argument	above can be overridden	with xterm-options on the com-
       mand line.

       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 pro-
       tocol.  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  con-
	      figured  to not prompt the user for a password.  Rlogin also au-
	      tomatically 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 -bg red yoda
	      Start  a	local red xterm	which connects to the remote host yoda
	      using rlogin.

       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
       James  J.  Dempsey  <jjd@jjd.com>  and  Stephen Gildea <gildea@intouch-
       sys.com>.

X Version 11			   Release 6			    XRLOGIN(1)

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