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To: der Mouse <mouse@collatz.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
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        terry@cs.weber.edu
Subject: Re: Batch Telnet (Re: diskless and 3Com 509) 
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Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 20:05:06 -0600
From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com>
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> It sure did last time I read the RFC; either end can send a FIN packet
> and continue to receive data in the other direction "forever", until
> the other end sends a FIN or until the local TCP client insists on
> closing down the read half of the connection.

That would imply there's some more complex problem with the BSD telnet 
implementation that the System V implementation gets right, since it should
be able to send a FIN on EOF then wait for the server to close.