[sclug] escape character ignored in FC2 telnet

[Simon Heywood]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 02:03:32PM +0100, Simon Heywood wrote:
> I've encountered a problem with telnet (running in a Gnome Terminal) in
> Fedora Core 2. I get the usual "Escape character is '^]'." message but
> pressing control and ']' doesn't escape from the session, it's echoed to
> the terminal instead.

Hmm, I've just answered my own question (something Tom will be familiar
with).

If I press return after '^]' I *do* get dropped at the 'telnet> '
prompt. I still don't know why this is necessary; merely
hitting '^]' is sufficient with other clients / terminals.

S.