Shawn K. Quinn wrote: > Bruno Rohee wrote: > > Thus breaking a behaviour that people have been used too for about > > the last 30 years. > > Telnet was used for most of the last 30 years, too.
telnet is still a wonderful tool that I use all the time. $ telnet hostname 25 $ telnet hostname 80 $ telnet hostname 22 It's great for testing basic service availability, version strings, or even a manual session without a lot of process overhead or connection negotiation. Tim
