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Re: Moving telnet/telnetd from base to pkgsrc



In article <20181215090320.GB17905%mail.duskware.de@localhost>,
Martin Husemann  <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
>On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 09:49:06AM +0100, Micha? Górny wrote:
>> To be honest, I don't think you can pull this.  Not because telnet is
>> necessary but because Windows-origin users are used to think of telnet
>> as netcat, and rarely realizing all the dragons hidden there.  Changing
>> your habits is hard.
>
>Telnet is NOT netcat.
>
>I need line mode and "send brk" at least on top of what nc (AFAIK) provides.

I have already started fixing the telnet client code. There is not so much of 
it...

christos



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