Visual Basic Telnet Chat

First off let me explain my programming goals. I am trying to make a telnet chat program (not a telnet client) that can exchange communication & commands via sockets etc. So far, I have opened windows sockets with my program.

Here is problem #1) When I connect via GMud (a telnet client used for MUDs [multi-user Dungeons] which exchanges communication and commands as well) nothing happens. I am able to see the chat I send from my Visual Basic program but when I type at GMud's prompt (or any other telnet client prompt) nothing happens. What should I do?

Strauss

Do you use the WinSock control for this or are directly using the winsock.dll ?

would have to see the code to help