Thanks Richard
Changing the double quotes to single quotes and removing the escape character
from the double quotes fixed it!!
Not an obvious problem!!
On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, Robin Gilks wrote about, Node query:
> > Greetings
> >
> > You can tell I had a lazy weekend - lots of questions!!
> >
> > This one is about something that worked on in linux-node 0.2.4 but doesn't
> > appear to work on linux-node 0.3.0. Its the expansion of an alias that sends a
> > string after a telnet connect. In the old version it was OK, the new one not
> > unless its a 'feature' of the newer kernel (old box is 2.0.36, 2.1.42 tools;
> > new box is 2.2.13 kernel, 0.0.5 tools) flushing the data.
> >
> > The line in my node.conf that is affected is:
> > Alias CONVers "telnet %{2:gb7ipd.ampr.org} 3600 \"/n %u %{1:160}\""
> >
> > and its the bit in the quotes at the end that don't work no more...
>
> What does work is;
>
> 'telnet %{2:gb7ipd.ampr.org} 3600 "/n %u %{1:160}\n/w *"'
>
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