break the description of the "open" command into two paragraphs and improve

description of .telnetrc.
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.\" $NetBSD: telnet.1,v 1.27 2003/08/07 11:16:10 agc Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: telnet.1,v 1.28 2003/10/27 19:46:14 heas Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1990, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@ -612,18 +612,23 @@ omits any automatic initialisation of
options.
When the port number is preceded by a minus sign,
the initial option negotiation is done.
.Pp
After establishing a connection, the file
.Pa \&.telnetrc
in the
user's home directory is opened.
user's home directory is read.
Lines beginning with a # are
comment lines.
Blank lines are ignored.
Lines that begin
without white space are the start of a machine entry.
The
first thing on the line is the name of the machine that is
being connected to.
The first thing on such a line is a string identifying the machine
that is being connected to.
It may be the hostname or numeric address sepecified as the argument
.Ar host ,
the canonical name of that string as determined by
.Xr getaddrinfo 3 ,
or the string \*(LqDEFAULT\*(Rq indicating all hosts.
The rest of the line, and successive
lines that begin with white space are assumed to be
.Nm