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 Message 190 
 Andy Ball to Bill Burton 
 Telnet clients 
 28 Dec 12 23:28:40 
 
Hello Bill,

   BB> You can install Mozilla Firefox on any machine
     > reguardless of OS and download one of two or three
     > telnet add ons. then you can telnet from the browser
     > ( telnet://xxx.xxxxxx.xxx ). It works great and looks
     > a lot better than other telnet clients.

    Is this advice intended for users of MS Windows?
Certainly on unix and Linux systems I would expect the stock telnet program
running inside something like an xterm to suffice and probably even work
better than a browser plug
-in.

-Andy Ball

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