[CLUE-Tech] cygwin question

[Sean LeBlanc]

On 11-20 14:21, David Anselmi wrote:
> Sean LeBlanc wrote:
> [...]
> >That's weird. I thought for sure that Cygwin came with one. If you run
> >setup, is there one available? I just did a brief bit of Googling, and I
> >found one "using XFree with Cygwin article", that mentioned 
> >/usr/bin/telnet.
> >Sorry for the long link, this is the PDF-converted-to-HTML version:
> >
> >http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:ivLMgsQQrvQC:xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/ug/cygwin-xfree-ug.pdf+cygwin+telnet+xterm&hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8
> >
> >Isn't the telnet on Windoze a GUI app? Does typing telnet in bash launch 
> >the
> >application?
> >
> 
> I guess the cygwin telnet is in the inetutils package--I'm not using it 
> (don't do much telnet these days).  It's probably worth a try for Jeff 
> if he needs it.
> 
> On Win2k and XP (at least) telnet is command line (in cmd.exe and bash). 
>    Don't know whether the gui one would work from an xterm.

Okay. Maybe I'm confusing that HyperTerminal thing they have with what's in
telnet.exe. 

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Sean LeBlanc:seanleblanc at americanisp.net