At times I find myself telnetting from Windows XP to another server and that I state a wrong port number such as

    c:\> telnet xxxxx.yy pp

After hitting enter, I realize that I entered the wrong port number and would like to abort the telnet process with a ctrl-c, however, telnet doesn't seem to respond even to ctrl-c. So, I have to wait a few seconds until telnet returns with a 

    Connecting to xxxxx.yy... Could not open connection to the host, on port pp: Connect failed


It's rather annoying to wait for the error message, especially when I already know it will eventually come.

So, is there a way to immediatly stop the telnet process.

Thanks / Rene