The following telnet commands are available. There are options (see toggle autoflush and toggle autosynch, below) which cause this action to flush subsequent output to the terminal (until the remote host acknowledges the TELNET sequence) and flush previous terminal input (in the case of quit and intr). If LINEMODE has ever been enabled, then the user's susp and eof are also sent as TELNET protocol sequences, and quit is sent as a TELNET ABORT instead of BREAK. If the LINEMODE option is enabled, or if the localchars toggle is TRUE (the default for "old line by line" see below), the user's quit, intr, and flush characters are trapped locally, and sent as TELNET protocol sequences to the remote side.
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The "local echo character" (initially " ^E") may be used to turn off and on the local echo (this would mostly be used to enter passwords without the password being echoed). In "old line by line" mode, all text is echoed locally, and (normally) only completed lines are sent to the remote host. In "character at a time" mode, most text typed is immediately sent to the remote host for processing. The remote system also relays changes to any special characters that happen on the remote system, so that they can take effect on the local system. When input editing or character echoing is to be disabled, the remote system will relay that information. When LINEMODE is enabled, character processing is done on the local system, under the control of the remote system.
If this fails, then telnet will revert to one of two input modes: either "character at a time" or "old line by line" depending on what the remote system supports. Once a connection is opened, telnet attempts to enable the TELNET LINEMODE option. If not specified, the telnet port ( 23) is used. Specifies a port number or service name to contact. Specifies a host to contact over the network. Opens tracefile for recording trace information. This option implies the -a option, and may also be used with the open command. By sending the specified name as the USER environment variable, so it requires that the remote system support the TELNET ENVIRON option. Specify user as the user to log in as on the remote system. Entering the escape character while connected causes telnet to drop to command mode.
If no character is supplied, no escape character will be used. Sets the IP TOS (type-of-service) option for the telnet connection to the value tos. These codes are accepted only at the beginning of a line. A ^Z ( Control-Z) instead of a dot suspends telnet, and a ^] (Control-close bracket, the default telnet escape character) generates a normal telnet prompt. Also, the interpretation of the escape character is changed: an escape character followed by a dot causes telnet to disconnect from the remote host. In this mode, the default escape character is a tilde. Sets the initial value of the debug toggle to TRUE.Įmulate rlogin. Use bind on the local socket to bind it to a specific local address. The username is retrieved via the getlogin system call. Currently, this sends the username via the USER variable of the ENVIRON option if supported by the remote system. This option causes the TELNET BINARY option to be negotiated on output.Īttempt automatic login. By default, telnet is not "8-bit clean" (it does not recognize 8-bit character encodings such as Unicode).ĭisables the escape character functionality that is, sets the escape character to "no character". This option causes an attempt to negotiate the TELNET BINARY option for both input and output. If telnet is invoked with a host argument, it performs an open command implicitly (see the Commands section below for details). It begins in command mode, where it prints a telnet command prompt (" telnet>"). The telnet command is used for interactive communication with another host using the TELNET protocol.