This happens in PuTTY and happens using the telnet client bundled with Vista.
Say I'm SSH'ed into some Linux host or other with PuTTY and I am using PuTTY on a Vista box. I decide to check that some service or other is working by telneting into the televant port - e.g. Apache:
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[rob@somehost ~]$ telnet localhost 80
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is '^]'.
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When I did this with XP, W2K etc, I could escape telnet by pressing Ctrl+[ to get the...
telnet>
...prompt. With Vista, I don't seem to be able to send Ctrl+[.
I get the same using the telnet client in Vista...
... so it can't be a PuTTY or Linux issue. How do I get Ctrl+[ to work??
I know I can change the telnet escape character with -e, but old habits die hard (and it is tough to find a suitable alternative escape character).