Charles Curley (12023-12-03): > True. None the less, there is at least one perfectly good use for > telnet: testing connections to servers.
Wrong. The telnet client is not entirely transparent, as the telnet protocol defines an escape octet to introduce commands. If you want to test a network protocol, you should use a really transparent client. Traditionally people use netcat (nc), but it handles EOF approximatively. For that use, I strongly recommend socat. Regards, -- Nicolas George
