[BusyBox] Simple telnet client (possibly for busybox)

Erik Andersen andersen at lineo.com
Thu Jun 8 16:03:15 UTC 2000


On Thu Jun 08, 2000 at 05:01:15PM +0300, Tomi Ollila wrote:
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> Hi
> 
> I've done (a way ago) a simple telnet client for Amiga. Now I'm in progress
> bringing that client to UNIX also (I will do a modified tomsrtbt for my
> personal use). 
> 
> Are you interested to look it for possible inclusion to busybox. It doesn't
> quite do all the features that the current busybox version looks to do --
> and therefore it is much smaller -- and easily extendable is someone wants
> to add something (maybe exporting terminal type might be one such feature)...
> 
> Well, eager to see your reply. I'll attach the source code of this
> telnet client -- and also a `teltester' -- a prg when put to live
> between the client and server outputs all the telnet negotiation
> commands that has transferred between the client and server. That 
> is very useful debugging tool when developing telnet clients.
> Example usage:
> 	tty1 % ./teltester 2223 localhost 23
> 	tty2 % telnet localhost 2223

Looks god.  I'll give it a good looking over tonight, and let you
know if it is going into BusyBox or not.  If it works as expected
and is smaller then the current telnet, it is pretty likely to go
in...

 -Erik

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