[Israel.pm] telnet without Net::Telnet

[Oron Peled]

On Thursday 15 July 2004 11:22, Yossi.Itzkovich at ecitele.com wrote:
> BTW: can someone explain why I can do it with ftp but not with telnet :

Sure, ftp reads from STDIN, while telnet needs a tty device because
it has to change its working mode (via ioctl) to raw mode. Tools like
Expect (and probably Net::Telnet -- haven't tested) are opening
pseudo-ttys and talk to them.

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