From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 24 08:23:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA16471 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 08:23:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from ui-gate.utell.co.uk (ui-gate.utell.co.uk [194.200.4.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA16465; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 08:23:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from shift.lan.awfulhak.org (shift.utell.net [97.3.0.21]) by ui-gate.utell.co.uk (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA01247; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 16:23:14 GMT Received: from shift.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by shift.lan.awfulhak.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA02572; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 16:23:13 GMT Message-Id: <199703241623.QAA02572@shift.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org cc: brian@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: brian@utell.co.uk Subject: tcpchat Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 16:23:13 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I wrote a (very simple) program a while ago called tcpchat. It has a rather self-explanatory usage of: tcpchat [ -t timeout ] host port [Expect [Send]].... Is it worth adding this as a port ? Or is there already something out there that'll "chat" tcp ? It's useful for "probing" for machines and/or services. -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !