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Date:      Thu, 22 Sep 2022 14:14:32 +0200
From:      Gregory Byshenk <freebsd@byshenk.net>
To:        Mike Karels <mike@karels.net>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: 24e1824e4646 - main - Deprecate telnet daemon
Message-ID:  <YyxRqBdFfg1in/nO@v1.leiden.byshenk.net>
In-Reply-To: <6C27C573-601C-40F8-99C9-C964F9C2B3E2@karels.net>
References:  <202209211517.28LFHkoJ089471@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <20220921163951.17C77AC@slippy.cwsent.com> <8EC34FC3-F299-4B03-AD4E-83D062D0E9F6@karels.net> <Yyt%2BEOM/Bnth88Xv@FreeBSD.org> <5c162710def7eb94c032dfab73e9560e@lerctr.org> <6C27C573-601C-40F8-99C9-C964F9C2B3E2@karels.net>

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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.

-- 
gregory byshenk  -  freebsd@byshenk.net  -  Leiden, NL



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