Just a thought off the top of my head, because I'm not quite following the full flow of code that you are talking about...

Is it possible that STDIN is getting closed or redirected by the telnet/sftp code? You could check for this by testing whether STDIN is open to a tty at the start of mmenu. 

if (-t STDIN)
   {
   # go on with normal operations
   }
else
   {
   # complain and/or re-open to the tty
   }

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In reply to Re^2: cls and perl by DrWhy
in thread cls and perl by jungl3thug

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