I suspect netcat or similar would do the job you need. I doubt you're actually visibly using any feature of TELNET options negotiation, you just want a reliable bytestream with send on <CR>/<LF> The last time I actually cared about telnet, was when I needed tn3270. Then I *did* need options negotiation. That was two decades ago or more. I also use telnet to test mail, or to see what an endpoint is doing I just checked, and netcat does telnet options. So you probably don't need to install your binary, and could continue to use "telnet" if you really needed to. What do you really expect move to HISTORIC to do? -G
