Would it not be handier to use rsh or ssh for this:

   rsh -l user  yourhost  some_command > filewithoutput.txt
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The command will be run remotely and the output will go into the local file.

If your very lazy you can even use a .rhosts files, in which case you don't even have to type in the password. Though this is not very secure. However since you are using telnet I guess you are not that worried about security.

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