Pann McCuaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Are there any telnet clients available other than the one that comes in >the telnet package?
There is telnet-ssl (aka ssltelnet), which supports SSL encryption but should work without it too. I've also heard of a Telnet client that supports ZModem file transfers. The name might have been ztelnet; it doesn't seem to be available as a Debian package. If you're connecting to something that is not a real Telnet server, but just a generic TCP service (kind of like SMTP), you can also use netcat or another similar utility. (Netcat (or "nc") is like telnet, but doesn't support the Telnet protocol's special commands, which do things like giving the client's environment variables to the server on request.) >and according to the telnet man page > >BUGS > The source code is not comprehensible. (You might want to look at the source code anyway, if you haven't already. Comprehensibility is a subjective matter, and the places you need to modify could be well written.) >I have a great opportunity at work to replace a Windoze box using >Attachmate to telnet into a remote unix box with a Linux machine, but I >need to be able customize F-keys and that sort of thing. If you only need to customize keys, you don't need to modify the telnet client. For example, you can rebind keys with xterm; see the xterm(1x) manual page (section "ACTIONS") for details and an example. (Just run the standard telnet client in that xterm.) -- -=- Rjs -=- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
