Re: git: 24e1824e4646 - main - Deprecate telnet daemon
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 12:44:57 UTC
On 22 Sep 2022, at 7:14, Gregory Byshenk wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 04:42:32PM -0500, Mike Karels wrote: > >> Ditto on the finger memory. And I tried this: >> >> mike@backup$ nc mail 25 >> 220 mail.karels.net Service ready >> helo backup.karels.net >> 500 Command missing Carriage Return >> >> telnet also accepts a service name instead of a port number (part of the >> finger memory). > > I understand the finger memory. Sometimes at $job I still type > 'telnet' on machines that I know do not have a telnet client. > > But a 'nc -t <hostname> <port>' should solve the problem you > show above. It does for me, in any case. It does not; the result is the same. The man page does not say anything about newline handling with -t; not sure what it is supposed to do. I also note that nc doesn’t pass control characters like ^D and ^C. Responding to an earlier message: telnet should remain in base, not moved to a port. Mike > -- > gregory byshenk - freebsd@byshenk.net - Leiden, NL