> 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 :) The easiest solution would probably be using the expect tool (see http://expect.nist.gov/), and use the normal telnet client. regards Patrick - : 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