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@@ -2,16 +2,19 @@
 
 <head>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
-<title>Apache Ant User Manual</title>
+<title>Telnet</title>
 </head>
 
 <body>
 
 <h2><a name="telnet">Telnet</a></h2>
 <h3>Description</h3>
-Task to automate a remote telnet session. The task uses nested &lt;read&gt; to indicate strings to wait for, and  &lt;write&gt; tags to specify text to send.  
+Task to automate a remote telnet session. The task uses 
+nested &lt;read&gt; to indicate strings to wait for, and
+&lt;write&gt; tags to specify text to send.  
 
-<p>If you do specify a userid and password, the system will assume a common unix prompt to wait on. This behavior can be easily over-ridden.</p>
+<p>If you do specify a userid and password, the system will 
+assume a common unix prompt to wait on. This behavior can be easily over-ridden.</p>
 <h3>Parameters</h3>
 <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
   <tr>
@@ -22,12 +25,12 @@ Task to automate a remote telnet session. The task uses nested &lt;read&gt; to i
   <tr>
      <td>userid</td>
      <td>the login id to use on the telnet server.</td>
-     <td>No</td>
+     <td>Only if password is specified</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>password</td>
      <td>the login password to use on the telnet server.</td>
-     <td>No</td>
+     <td>Only if userid is specified</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>server</td>
@@ -50,8 +53,34 @@ Task to automate a remote telnet session. The task uses nested &lt;read&gt; to i
      <td>No</td>
   </tr>
 </table>
+<h3><a name="nested">Nested Elements</a></h3>
+The commands to send to the server, and responses to wait for, are
+described as nested elements.  
+
+<h4>read</h4>
+
+<p>declare (as a text child of this element) a string to wait for.
+The element supports the timeout attribute, which overrides any
+timeout specified for the task as a whole. It also has a <tt>string<tt>
+attribute, which is an alternative to specifying the string as 
+a text element.
+</p>
+<i>Always declare an opening and closing
+&lt;read&gt; element to ensure that statements are not sent before
+the connection is ready, and that the connection is not broken before
+the final command has completed.
+</i>
+<h4>write</h4>
+
+<p>describes the text to send to the server. The <tt>echo</tt> boolean
+attribute controls whether the string is echoed to the local log; 
+this is "true" by default
+</p>
 <h3>Examples</h3>
-A simple example of connecting to a server and running a command.  This assumes a prompt of &quot;ogin:&quot; for the userid, and a prompt of &quot;assword:&quot; for the password.
+A simple example of connecting to a server and running a command.  This assumes
+ a prompt of &quot;ogin:&quot; for the userid, and a prompt of &quot;assword:&quot;
+ for the password.
+
 <blockquote><pre>
 &lt;telnet userid=&quot;bob&quot; password=&quot;badpass&quot; server=&quot;localhost&quot;&gt;
    &lt;read&gt;/home/bob&lt;/read&gt;

userid	the login id to use on the telnet server.	No	Only if password is specified
password	the login password to use on the telnet server.	No	Only if userid is specified
server	No