Re: Look, ma no telnet [was: Telnet]

On Mon, Dec 04, 2023 at 08:01:10PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de (12023-12-04): > > These days, even bash can do it: > > Zsh could years before. > > > (alas, it can't do TCP server, which is a pity) > > socat can do TCP server. And UDP client, and UDP server, and TLS/SSL >

Re: Look, ma no telnet [was: Telnet]

to...@tuxteam.de (12023-12-04): > These days, even bash can do it: Zsh could years before. > (alas, it can't do TCP server, which is a pity) socat can do TCP server. And UDP client, and UDP server, and TLS/SSL client and server, and Unix sockets, and SOCKS, and tun, and… (And zsh seems to be

Look, ma no telnet [was: Telnet]

On Mon, Dec 04, 2023 at 09:23:16AM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > 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