On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 13:16 +0000, Paul Smith wrote: > What I am trying to accomplish is the following: > > http://marc.10east.com/?l=r-help&m=116389849302592&w=2 Sounds like you don't want a telnet server, then. But that you're trying to use a telnet client to debug some other server, and the problem is with *it*. But I can't really tell what ryacas is about from that message, nor a quick internet search on it. Otherwise, if you had a telnet server installed, and running per the usual configuration, you could do "telnet localhost" in a command line, and you'd be logging into another command line interface, just as if you were logging into a computer through a network. -- (Currently testing FC5, but still running FC4, if that's important.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.