>> To name three real uses I've made of [telnet] recently: [...] > You might find netcat useful. Not sure if/which distribution has it > by default.
"Distribution"? Are you assuming I run Linux? (I don't, not on my own machines. The Pi 3 was for work.) I have a netcat, one of my own writing. It works reasonably well for such things, yes. However, it is not present everywhere; when there is a netcat present, its command line requires learning - if I can even find the documentation for it. (And assuming there isn't an nc present that is something completely different.) Until I ran into that Raspbian, though, telnet had always (a) just been there and (b) just worked with (c) the same command-line syntax. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B