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From: wht@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US (Warren Tucker)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: how to popen telnet ???
Message-ID: <265@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US>
Date: 30 Nov 90 18:22:10 GMT
References: <1990Nov30.033708@dali.gatech.edu>
Reply-To: wht@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US (Warren Tucker)
Organization: Amateur Radio Station N4HGF
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In article <1990Nov30.033708@dali.gatech.edu> mike@penguin.gatech.edu (Mike Gourlay) writes:
>Hi.
>
>	I want to use telnet from another program, but it seems that telnet
>does not use stdin.  How do you get telnet to take input from stdin, especially
>when using popen?

I have a telnet package that opens sockets and impliments a sort
of "byte stream" read and write capability.  It lets you send
strings and read lines, read until delimiter, read with timeout, etc.

Want it?
 
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