On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Lucas King wrote: <snip> > several ESC characters. i suspect that these are a part of the telnet > setup dialog that the two machines conduct when logging in.
I'm inclined to agree - telnet puts all sorts of crap through the socket and netcat makes a much better alternative for scripting. Try using `nc' to port 23 rather than telnet. Cheers, Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
