On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Warren Young wrote: > On 8/8/2013 05:08, Andrey Repin wrote: >> >> >> Though, I fail to see, how Cygwin telnet is different from, say PuTTY. Or >> native Windows telnet. > > > Windows 8 doesn't come with telnet.exe installed by default, and when you > install it from > Programs and Features, it's invisible to Cygwin 32, apparently due to the SxS > madness.
Have you tried sysnative in case installing telnet gives you a 32-bit version as well as a 64-bit one? > Windows' telnet.exe doesn't even run particularly well within cmd.exe. > Telnetting to a local web > server here, it didn't do local echo properly, so I couldn't see whether I'd > typed "GET / > HTTP1.0" correctly. Different versions of Windows have come with one of two telnets. Early and late versions came with the white-on-black, no-local-echo you have. The others came with black-on-white, with-local-echo, window-closes-when-connection-closes. IIRC, the one that closed when the connection closed was dropped from Windows prior to HTTP persistent connections being widely supported, so was never useful for diagnosing HTTP. Basically, Windows telnet (both versions) is proof that MIC. Microsoft Is Crap. -- Paul -- 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