rtools were deemed almost unused 15 years ago...

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <20170621034106.GA27501 at lonesome.com>, Mark Linimon writes:
>On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 12:36:37PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
>> Keep the telnet client. It's still heavily used for more things than
>> connecting to telnetd.
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>e.g. dumb remote power controllers.
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>nc blah 23 doesn't get me very far, am I missing a magic flag?

No, you're missing TELNET option negotiations.

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