RLTELNET(1)

📦 version 1.1, in alpine 3.24

okay so bestie, welcome to RLTELNET(1) — that’s rltelnet, hanging out in the User Contributed Perl Documentation like the icon she is. she connects you to sockets, but with a readline glow-up. no cap. ✨

🦋 NAME 🦋

rltelnet — connect to a socket with readline frontend. that’s the whole vibe: socket connection, but make it readline. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bestie, you run it like this, verbatim, no edits:

rltelnet www.nethype,de:80
rltelnet www.google.com 80
rltelnet unix/ /path/to/socket

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so here’s the tea: this program connects to a socket using AnyEvent::Socket::tcp_connect, prints everything it receives from the socket, and offers a readline editing interface to send lines to the socket. literally the whole loop. 💖

and yes, this is very remotely what telnet does when it’s used on a non-telnet socket — except that it uses readline and supports more types of socketsd (e.g. unix domain sockets). iconic behavior, honestly. 🫶

💌 AUTHOR, CONTACT, SUPPORT 💌

if you need to find the human behind the magic, here are the contact deets, copy-paste ready:

Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/AnyEvent-ReadLine-Gnu.html

mwah 💋 this page is running on perl v5.42.2 and is dated 2026-02-15. now go connect to that socket and slay, bestie 🫶💖

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