IPChains question (SOLVED)

[Derek Atkins]

John Chambers <jc at trillian.mit.edu> writes:

> to convince myself of whatever it does.  I do know that there  are  a
> lot  of  things  in  TFM  page  that,  when  I  try them, behave very
> differently than what I expect.  "~." for example.

You can only use '~.' (or any '~' function) at the start of a line
(i.e., just after a newline).  If you're typed anything OTHER than a
newline, then SSH won't escape the ~-function.  TO make sure it ALWAYS
works, you need to type:
	<RET> ~ <fcn>

FWIW, 'rlogin' behaves exactly the same.

-derek
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