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Expect is used to automate control of interactive applications such as Telnet, FTP, passwd, fsck, rlogin, tip, SSH, and others. [3] Expect uses pseudo terminals (Unix) or emulates a console (Windows), starts the target program, and then communicates with it, just as a human would, via the terminal or console interface. [4]
The Telnet client may be used in debugging network services such as SMTP, IRC, HTTP, FTP or POP3, to issue commands to a server and examine the responses. [16] For example, Telnet client applications can establish an interactive TCP session to a port other than the Telnet server port.
Many computer protocols, such as telnet, include a NOP command that a client can issue to request a response from the server without requesting any other actions. Such a command can be used to ensure the connection is still alive or that the server is responsive. A NOOP command is part of the following protocols (this is a partial list): telnet ...
the Telnet, rlogin, and SSH client itself, which can also connect to a serial port PSCP an SCP client, i.e. command-line secure file copy. Can also use SFTP to perform transfers PSFTP an SFTP client, i.e. general file transfer sessions much like FTP PuTTYtel a Telnet-only client Plink a command-line interface to the PuTTY back ends.
(The syntax in the above example would be valid for the command-line telnet client packaged with many operating systems, including most Unix operating systems, or available as an option or add-on.) In this example, 172.16.1.254 is the IP address of the console device, and 2002 is the TCP port associated with a terminal line on the server.
In January 2005, Boris Maisuradze, together with Yutaka Hirata, started the TeraTerm Support forum where they answered questions from Tera Term users. Posting in this forum was the best way to suggest new features for Tera Term or propose new commands for the Tera Term Macro language.
Application programs may also implement a command-line interface. For example, in Unix-like systems, the telnet program has a number of commands for controlling a link to a remote computer system. Since the commands to the program are made of the same keystrokes as the data being sent to a remote computer, some means of distinguishing the two ...
A dictd server can be used from Telnet. For example, to connect to the DICT server on localhost, on a Unix system one can normally type: telnet localhost dict and then enter the command "help" to see the available commands. The standard dictd package also provides a "dict" command for command-line use. More sophisticated DICT clients include: cURL