Before you can use telnet-mode from within Emacs, you need a telnet client other than the one found on the system; the system telnet is a windows app, and cannot be used as a subprocess since it does not use stdio for input and output. Two possible telnet clients that you can use are: • telnet, a Windows version of telnet by Igor Milavec modified to use stdio by Naftali Ramati (includes source). Unfortunately, this telnet program requires that the host be specified on the command line, but telnet-mode wants to specify the host using the “open” command once telnet has started. Zoltan Kemenczy has written a version of the telnet-mode function that does this. To use it, place “(require ‘telnet)” in your startup file, followed by Zoltan’s new telnet-mode code. If the new telnet-mode still does not work for you, then you will probably find it easiest to run telnet inside of a shell buffer (instead of using telnet-mode). If you use the Borla
