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> 
> me@computer:~$ telnet www.grex.org
> Trying 216.93.104.34...
> Connected to grex.cyberspace.org.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> me@computer:~$

Sometimes grex has problems for a few hours and perhaps you were just
statistically unlucky?   I just telnetted twice to grex with the telnet
program provided with BL2 and connected immediately.  Please try again.
Did you try Windows telnet /Linux telnet /Windows/Linux alternately
within a few minutes and Windows worked but Linux did not?
If you still have problems I will report this to staff.



I set you up a second account (I emailed you the login and password) and
forced 'vt102'.  Lynx arrow keys don't work when telnetted.  Grex does not
have a linux terminal definition.  It has hundreds of others that I never
heard of.  


> 
> > Perhaps I have set up the account wrong.  My two accounts are csh.  I can
> > set you up a csh account with a copy of my .cshrc.  I probably chose plain
> > bash for you.
> >
> I never get as far as bash.  As you can see, the connection gets closed by
> the foreign host almost immediately.
> 
> > You can also try telnetting to www.grex.org and signing in as newuser and
> > choosing your own login and password and shell and having it identify your
> > terminal - perhaps that will work better.
> >
> I never have gotten that far on any Linux machine.  The connection
> always gets closed before any login prompt.  I use telnet and ssh for
> other connections from the Linux machines in question, and have never
> encountered any problem.  Only your shell svc does this.  I've logged in
> at www.grex.org and run Pine using a Win machine or two, but I can't get
> it to work from any Linux machine (including the one I have BL2 on).
> 
> James
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