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From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com>
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Subject: Re: Batch Telnet (Re: diskless and 3Com 509)
To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 19:33:04 -0600 (CST)
Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org
In-Reply-To: <9503170051.AA26101@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Mar 16, 95 05:51:09 pm
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> It is not a question of the telnet waiting for the other side to flush
> output before going away.  It is a question of the telnetd (in your
> example, the nntpd) waiting for the output to be flushed to your
> machine before sending the disconnect.

> The problem is in the server, not the client.

*really*? That's surprising... I'm sure I did the same thing from System V
to the same client program.

Especially when the following works:

	(echo LIST; echo QUIT; sleep 600000) | telnet localhost nntp

I don't see how *server* side behaviour can explain this.