On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> Simple and to the point here.  After initial install of Linux-Mandrake,
> Telnet worked fine.  However, after updating it via Mandrake-Updates, it
> appears broken and won't provide a user login and password screen...
> only tells me that the escape character is ^]  Why would I need an
> escape character when the updated telnet doesn't provide me something to
> escape from? (Forgive me for humor... but it's a good way of maintaining
> your sanity!)
> 
> Anyone got a clue as to what got changed, which causes Telnet to do
> something like this?  What am I missing???
> 
Check the archives. This is a known problem. You only downloaded the
telnet CLIENT. Now, you have to go get the telnet SERVER.
        John

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