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Can I abort telnet while it is still trying to connect?

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Mar 15, 202621408 views
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Problem

At times I find myself telnetting from Windows XP to another server and that I state a wrong port number such as After hitting Enter, I realize that I entered the wrong port number and would like to abort the telnet process with a ctrl-c, however, telnet doesn't seem to respond even to ctrl-c. So, …

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c:\> telnet xxxxx.yy pp

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Fix for: Can I abort telnet while it is still trying to connect?

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Edit: Of course, it's never that simple. As you've observed, Microsoft's telnet doesn't respond to while waiting for a connection. If you don't want to wait around, you only have two options: Kill the telnet process (from another command shell or th…

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