Andy Ball wrote in a message to Bill Burton:   
      
      
    AB> 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.   
      
    AB>     Is this advice intended for users of MS Windows?   
    AB> Certainly on unix and Linux systems I would expect the stock telnet   
    AB> program running inside something like an xterm to suffice and   
    AB> probably even work better than a browser plug   
    AB> -in.   
      
   I am running Firefox with the plugin on a Ubuntu box and get a better cleaner   
   screen presentation than with the linux clients!   
      
   Later,   
   Bill   
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