telnet-client(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-client — a manual page, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, this one lives in the TELNET Library section of your manual pages, so if you ever go looking for it, that's where it's at. it's giving "tiny utility, big personality." let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

telnet-client — a simplistic TELNET client 🌸

yes. that's the whole name. she's simple and she knows it 💅

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

telnet-client <remote address> <remote port>

that's it. two little arguments. so iconic of her 💖

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so telnet-client is an extremely simplistic TELNET client. like, we're not being shady, that's literally the official description, no cap. she was designed solely to do two things:

  • act as a test of libtelnet functionality 🔥
  • help you test simple TELNET servers or proxies 🦋

that's the whole job description. she's a test harness with main character energy and we respect it.

⚠️ okay real talk for a sec: telnet-client should not be used for real work. not for actual telnet-ing, not for connecting to anything that matters, not ever. she's a test tool, periodt. use her for testing, love her for testing, and then put her back. 🙈

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

go read her friends, they're all slaying in their own way:

and that's the whole page, bestie, short and sweet like a lil strawberry 🍓 — this one's from the LIBTELNET era, filed under telnet-client(1), and honestly? iconic. bye mwah 💜🧚‍♀️

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