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.TH TELNET 1
.SH NAME
telnet \- make a remote telnet connection
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B telnet
.I machine
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B Telnet
uses the Telnet protocol to talk to a remote
.IR machine ,
addressed using any form acceptable to
.IR dial (2):
.IB net ! host ! port
in general.
The default
.I net
is
.BR tcp ,
and the default
.I port
is 23, the standard Telnet login port.
.PP
.I Telnet
connects to the given
.I machine
and interprets the Telnet protocol.
It reads data from its standard input
and sends it to the remote machine, and
copies to the standard output the data it receives from the remote machine.
.SH SOURCE
.B /appl/cmd/telnet.b
.SH SEE ALSO
.IR cpu (1)
.br
``Telnet protocol specification'', RFC854 (1 May 1983) and related RFCs.