telnet in a shell script

[Dan Bernstein]

In article <13064 at vpk1.UUCP> craig at vpk1.ATT.COM (Craig Campbell) writes:
> In article <7006:Nov1408:13:3290 at kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
> > Here waitfor is a dumb program along the lines of
    [ seven-plus packed lines of C code ]
> I'm suprised that you would post code to the net looking like that!!
> (Actually, I'm suprised anyone would write code that looked like that.)
> Why did you do that?

Why did I do that? Because I try to save the reader's time. Most readers
do not want to wade through fifty lines of beautifully formatted code
just to see the rest of the article; they'll accept that the blob of C
does the job I say it does, and inspect an indented version at their
leisure if they want to invest more time.

Putting a nicely formatted C program into the middle of a posting when
it is not directly relevant to the thread is not polite.

---Dan