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Re: Telnet in latest Cygwin


On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Ralph Siegler wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
>
>   I'd suggest to use ssh instead.
>> Telnet is inherently unsecure and ssh is a wonderful replacement.

> but telnet is an invaluable tool for command line troubleshooting tcp
> network connectivity issues to SMTP, HTTP and other services by manually
> typing the protocol commands into the server.  ssh can't do that

There's also netcat (nc).

http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=x86_64%2Fnc%2Fnc-1.107-4&grep=%2Fnc.exe

Cheers

robert

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