From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 20 12:44:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.184.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5ACF37B67D for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 12:44:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lowell@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f1KKih093134; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 15:44:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from lowell) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, ronald+20010318@klop.yi.org Subject: Re: shell command to make tcp connection? References: From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 20 Feb 2001 15:44:42 -0500 In-Reply-To: ronald+20010318@klop.yi.org's message of "18 Feb 2001 15:55:32 +0100" Message-ID: <44itm5krt1.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Lines: 13 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ronald+20010318@klop.yi.org (Ronald Klop) writes: > Hello. > > I'm looking for a programm to use in a shell script to make a tcp > connection. On another unix machine I ones used a programm called > mconnect, but I can't find it on the freebsd base system nor in the > ports collection. Is there something similar? If yes, what is the > name of the programm? mconnect on Sun machines is intended for talking to smtp servers, but it doesn't actually understand anything about smtp itself. As afar as I can see, telnet(1) does everything mconnect does. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message