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From: rgoguen@MIKEY.BBN.COM (Robert J Goguen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: specifing a port when using telnet
Message-ID: <7634@brl-adm.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 17:09:16 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  1 17:09:16 1987
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Folks
	I'm sorry if this has been asked before, but ......

I'm running 4.3 bsd and why is it whenever you use a port number in the telnet 
command (I.e telnet <host> <port number>) 
it turns off echoing the characters back at you until you hit the CR? I looked 
at the source and it turns out that when using telnet, anytime you have 3 
arguments it does this. Even if I specify port 23, which is the telnetd port,
it still turns off the echoing.
	Why is this? Is it because the designers figured if the port number was
added, this is not a human running telnet but a program and there's no need to 
echoing things back. 

	I can't find any switch to enable the echoing. Now I could go ahead
and change the telnet program but next version I'm stuck with the same problem.
		Any thoughts or suggestions are welcome.
Bob Goguen