Re: [ITA] rsh-0.17-3

[cyg Simple <cygsimple at gmail dot com>]

On 7/16/2018 10:02 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:

> 
> Most of the rsh usage is going to be legacy hardware and systems which
> various places still have in good numbers. Various industrial and lab
> components might have been built in 1995 and is slower than your
> iphone but the replacement costs tens or hundreds of millions of
> dollars... (and still uses rsh for backwards compatibility). Payroll
> systems in other places use rsh and rcp and cost large amounts to
> 'upgrade'. The people running these don't show up mailing lists
> because they may not even know that the system uses rsh/telnet or some
> other obscure thing.. they just run a script on a Windows desktop that
> someone wrote years ago. They only show up when stuff stops working.
> 

But are those scripts Cygwin?  I doubt they are.  Do you have proof of any?

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cyg Simple