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Date:      Wed, 21 Jun 2017 06:00:05 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Jeremie Le Hen <jlh@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: rtools were deemed almost unused 15 years ago...
Message-ID:  <43581.1498024805@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20170621034106.GA27501@lonesome.com>
References:  <CAGSa5y3kVajpSSJUT9Vt0-dTwtaXMwNWvv_ELH14z68osM0UYA@mail.gmail.com> <CANCZdfoBnSugfbcMNpebb-8GgBWHrN4qFUcQ8f44Lr9xuqd8xQ@mail.gmail.com> <20170621034106.GA27501@lonesome.com>

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In message <20170621034106.GA27501@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.
>
>e.g. dumb remote power controllers.
>
>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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