You can use the 'nc' (aka netcat) instead of telnet nc localhost 80
>From a cygwin terminal it will give an equivalent result to 'telnet localhost 80', and far better than Microsoft's #$&%#*%&$# telnet Search for 'nc' in the cygwin installation. good luck -- View this message in context: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/Telnet-in-latest-Cygwin-tp101753p105720.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple