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in reply to Re^2: Probably easy, but I'm stumped - telnet question
in thread Probably easy, but I'm stumped - telnet question

If the host you are connecting to runs a shell that does "fancy" stuff with the command-line prompt - such as escape strings to set color, bold, reverse-video or whatever in the "terminal" font display - you might be getting residue from that… (but I'm whistling in the dark here).
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