Re: [Sheflug] rlogin

[Dr A V Le Blanc <nospam [at] mcc.ac.uk>]

On Mon, 29 May 2000, Ian Wright wrote:
> The only thing now which puzzles me is that, as I shut
> one machine down completely before exiting the telnet link at the other
> machine and this locked the terminal window on that machine - wouldn't let
> me close that window until I closed down the machine - how does a dumb
> server deal with such things.

There is a telnet escape character, which usually defaults to
C-] (Control-Right-square-bracket).  If you go to the window and type
this character (perhaps immediately after <RETURN>?), you should get
a prompt from the local telnet client:

     telnet>

Then type the command 'quit'.

     -- Owen
     LeBlanc [at] mcc.ac.uk
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