Xtelnet(1)

💖 Xtelnet(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Xtelnet page — it's giving call telnet in a local xterm, and honestly? iconic. This is Xtelnet(1), reporting for duty 🫶✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

Xtelnet — yes, that's the whole name, slay 💅

📜 SYNOPSIS 📜

xtelnet [-iconic][-a][-q][-s] host [host ...]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

The script xtelnet will open a telnet(1) session on the remote host host in a local xterm. That's the whole vibe, no cap. For a session with a remote xterm, see xlogin(1) — iykyk 🦋

Xtelnet will show a message how to change the remote value of the expected backspace key to be conform with behaviour of the local xterm. Yes, backspace lore is real 😭

✨ General Options ✨

• -i, -iconic — this option causes xtelnet to start the telnet session as an icon. tiny window energy 🎀
• -a — this option causes xtelnet to attempt an automatic login. no cap, auto-login attempt 🔥
• -q — this option causes xtelnet to skip the warn message about the backspace key. silence is golden 💅
• -s — this option causes xtelnet to use slogin(8) instead of telnet. switching up the tool, periodt ⭐

🦋 EXAMPLE 🦋

run it like this, bestie:

xtelnet localhost

🍓 FILES 🍓

• /usr/X11R6/bin/xtelnet — the file path, literally right there 🫶

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> — icon, legend, author 💜

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

xlogin(1), rsh(1), ssh(1), xterm(1) — all the friends 💖

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okay that's the whole manual, bestie 💖 — xoxo, 3rd Berkeley Distribution, January 22, 1997, signing off from Xtelnet(1) 🌈✨