Hi I want to do something like this using telnet. In my program, I will connect a socket to the telnet server on another machine. I will send some command(for example, "pwd") to the telnet server as it is, without adding any telnet command codes(just the string "pwd"). Will telnet accept such commands and respond to them? Or is this possible by doing some extensions to this trivial program like - by negotiating some options with the telnet server before sending the commands? The problem is, I don't want to write the whole telnet client again :) I know, this program looks very silly. But, I want to integrate the telnet CLI with some other CLI I have on my machine. That is, instead of having two programs(telnet client and my shell) providing two different CLI, I want a single program which can provide both. Could anyone suggest how I can do this using telnet(or some other way)? thanks & regards Madhavi. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html