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.

I've been in the same situation. I just wrote a utility in Perl that gave my techies a text menu interface to do the big things that needed done frequently. Buttons sound prooty cool, tho.

I would hack PuTTY: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~s.../download.html

It's open source and has a lovely use-for-pretty-much-anything license:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~s...y/licence.html

You still use telnet?!?!?!? Goodness that brings back memories. Is it still going strong or is it dying out?

We use telnet quite a bit where I work, some of our systems on our server are moving to web based, but not everything will be able to be moved, so I am sure it will be around for along time.

Telnet isn't very secure guys. Drop it in favor of SSH.
I'd probably go Dr. P's route if I had to do this... just a text based menu... The user logs in and executes the menu or it is execute for them as part of their login process.