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  1. Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!kronos.arc.nasa.gov!jono
  3. From: jono@kronos.arc.nasa.gov (Jonathon Oliver-Summer 92)
  4. Subject: telnet
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug13.162928.16648@kronos.arc.nasa.gov>
  6. Sender: usenet@kronos.arc.nasa.gov (Will Edgington, wedgingt@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov)
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: muir.arc.nasa.gov
  8. Organization: NASA/ARC Information Sciences Division
  9. Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 16:29:28 GMT
  10. Lines: 8
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  12. If I use the following command to login to a machine:
  13.     
  14.  ( sleep 1 ; cat username ; sleep 1 ; cat password ; cat - ) | telnet machine
  15.  
  16. I find that the telnet process prints everything out twice.
  17. How can I stop this behaviour?
  18.  
  19.     Jon Oliver
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