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PhilBon · Jul 17th, 2007, 8:29 PM

I was wondering if anyone had ever made a specialized telnet client? Here is my situation: At work we have a telnet server and it's a bitch to use, the help sucks and we have to do a lot of interaction with it on a daily basis. Currently I'm not in our "programming" department and want to make a program for myself and others in my department so it'll make our life easier and we can laugh at the programmers. Basically what I want to do, is make a program that is a telnet client, that has commands built into it, and have a GUI. So if I want to have it show me help, I just have to click a button that says help rather than typing in help. If anyone could show me an example of their work, or point me in the right direction, it'd be a great help. All I really need is how to interact with a Telnet server, and I think I have a start on it: Basically create a new TCP socket, then tell it to connect to the server and then have it interact with it, once you are done interacting then close the connection. I've done a little stuff with this in Java but that was a few months ago and would prefer it to be VB.Net. I'm using VB.Net because it's the only language I know.

Jul 17th, 2007, 8:29 PM	#1
PhilBon Hobbyist Programmer Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 172 Rep Power: 3	Telnet Client I was wondering if anyone had ever made a specialized telnet client? Here is my situation: At work we have a telnet server and it's a bitch to use, the help sucks and we have to do a lot of interaction with it on a daily basis. Currently I'm not in our "programming" department and want to make a program for myself and others in my department so it'll make our life easier and we can laugh at the programmers. Basically what I want to do, is make a program that is a telnet client, that has commands built into it, and have a GUI. So if I want to have it show me help, I just have to click a button that says help rather than typing in help. If anyone could show me an example of their work, or point me in the right direction, it'd be a great help. All I really need is how to interact with a Telnet server, and I think I have a start on it: Basically create a new TCP socket, then tell it to connect to the server and then have it interact with it, once you are done interacting then close the connection. I've done a little stuff with this in Java but that was a few months ago and would prefer it to be VB.Net. I'm using VB.Net because it's the only language I know.