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-This is basically telnet.NE.95.05.31 with Finnish encryption code
-added. It has also been updated with the (minor) patches for
-telnet.NE.95.10.27 and been made autoconfed. It is known to work with:
-
-		telnet	telnetd
-SunOS 4		X	X
-Solaris 2.4	X	X
-DEC OSF/1 2&3	X	X
-Ultrix 4.4	X	(not tested)
-AIX 3.2		X	X
-AIX 4.1		X	X
-HPUX ?		X	X
-NetBSD		X	X
-Linux		X	X
-IRIX 5		X	X
-
-
-See README.ORIG for further details. Some of the options aren't
-automatically configured, so you might have to edit config.h.
-
-