in reply to net telnet cisco; how to handle unable to connect

have you seen your node? It looks really horrible. You should have read the docs.

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"2b"||!"2b";$$_="the question"
Besides that, my code is untested unless stated otherwise.
One more: please review the article about regular expressions (do's and don'ts) I'm working on.