--On 21 July 2005 14:11 +0200, BjC6rn SjC6berg wrote:
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 08:32:45PM -0700, Tim Hammerquist wrote:
Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
It's great for testing basic service availability, version strings,
or even a manual session without a lot of process overhead or
connection negotiation.
I've also been using telnet to do that kind of job. However nc(1) has
been my tool of choice since the day I realised my favourite bsd ships
with it.
nc(1) doesn't work for the telnet cli on speedtouch ADSL routers,
though.
