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From: wilker@gauss.math.purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Problems with NCSA Telnet 2.3b14
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Date: 1 Feb 91 13:26:46 GMT
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This may sound silly, but earlier copies of Telenet came with
a batch file TELNET.BAT, which defaulted with blank input to
some local machine address at NCSA. This causes telnet to try that
address, which means a long wait for timeout.
  FTP.BAT on the other hand will just sit quitly after giving
the FTP> prompt. Telnet does seem to have the command line
interface that unix telnet has.
Clarence Wilkerson