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From: dwu@nunki.usc.edu (Daniel Wu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: re: VERY simple answer re: reconnecting in telnet
Summary: Nah, it can't be that simple!
Keywords: telnet reconnect
Message-ID: <2624@nunki.usc.edu>
Date: 7 Feb 89 19:04:18 GMT
Reply-To: dwu@nunki.usc.edu (Daniel Wu)
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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 > In article <2560@nunki.usc.edu> I wrote:
 >
 > Suppose I telnet to some machine then for some reason or other I escape
 > to the telnet prompt; i.e. I type 
 >		^]
 > and I see the prompt
 >		telnet>
 >
 > How do I go back to the machine I was logging on before?

To get back to that remote machine I was logged onto, all I had to do was
type a carriage return <CR>.  Voila!  Shouldn't life always be this simple?

Thanks to everybody who e-mailed me the solution.


Daniel
dwu@castor.usc.edu