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From: tmonroe@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Anthony Monroe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Fixing telnet annoy-o-matic
Date: 6 Nov 1996 18:17:22 -0800
Organization: Computer Science Undergraduate Association, UC Berkeley
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In article <32811ABF.33B8ED73@mauswerks.com>,
Brian Topping  <topping@mauswerks.com> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I am wondering if anyone has seen a problem with telnetd that
>connections get hung up after the second control-C sent in a session.  I
>think I am going to die if it happens again.  For instance, I can start
>a ping, see that it works, hit control-C.  If that was the first time
>that I ever did that this session, it stops fine, no big deal.  If
>however I had previously typed control-C at any previous time during the
>session, this time will abruptly close the connection.

The only place I've encountered this so far is with remote hosts that run
HP-UX 9.x.  And, it seems, I encounter the ^C bug a lot more often when
I'm using NCSA Telnet 2.6 on my girlfriend's Mac LCIII.  (NCSA and HP-UX 
make strange bedfellows.)

However, the bug I encountered was two ^C's in rapid succession.  Just 
really weird.

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