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Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> Fafa Diliha Romanova writes:
> 
> 
>>what's with this badly written error message?
>>
>># telnet localhost:61
>>localhost:21: hostname nor servname provided, or not known
> 
> 
> Replace the colon with a space in the command line.
> 

Agreed - however, rethink using Telnet in favor of ssh.

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Best regards,
Chris

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