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 -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple