telnet-chatd(1)

📦 version 0.23, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, epel 10, epel 9, fedora 43, fedora 44, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ telnet-chatd — the manual, but make it cute ✨

okay so bestie, we're looking at telnet-chatd(1) from the TELNET Library section of the manual, and honestly? it's giving "tiny program, huge main character energy." sit down, grab a boba, let's go 🧋💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

telnet-chatd — a simplistic TELNET chat server. that's it, that's the whole vibe. simple. unbothered. slaying in the most minimal way possible 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

telnet-chatd <listen port>

so you run it, you hand it a <listen port>, and boom — it's doing its thing. no extra flags, no secret menu, no nothing. the way that it literally just needs one argument and we move on 😌✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so telnet-chatd is an extremely simplistic TELNET chat server. like, "extremely" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence and it deserves the credit fr fr 👑

the whole point of it? it's designed primarily as a test for TELNET clients and proxies. so if you're out here building a TELNET client or a TELNET proxy and you're like "hmm, does this even work, bestie?" — this lil server is your guinea pig 🐹✨ it exists so you can point your stuff at it and see what happens. iykyk.

💀 WARNING, NO CAP: it is not recommended to use telnet-chatd in any kind of production capacity. like. at all. ever. this is a test toy, not your infrastructure. do NOT put this in prod and then come crying to me, because i warned you with my whole chest 🫶😭

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

the whole friend group, obviously:

and that's the tea, bestie 🍓 go read those other pages, they're also cute. this one came to you from LIBTELNET, manual section 1, telnet-chatd(1) — stan a minimal icon, periodt 💖🎀🦋✨🌈👑💅

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