wok-6.x diff perl-net-telnet/description.txt @ rev 24500
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author | Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@slitaz.org> |
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date | Sat Feb 19 19:01:32 2022 +0000 (2022-02-19) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/perl-net-telnet/description.txt Sat Feb 19 19:01:32 2022 +0000 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ 1.4 +Net::Telnet allows you to make client connections to a TCP port and do 1.5 +network I/O, especially to a port using the TELNET protocol. 1.6 +Simple I/O methods such as print, get, and getline are provided. 1.7 +More sophisticated interactive features are provided because connecting 1.8 +to a TELNET port ultimately means communicating with a program designed 1.9 +for human interaction. 1.10 +These interactive features include the ability to specify a time-out and 1.11 +to wait for patterns to appear in the input stream, such as the prompt 1.12 +from a shell. 1.13 +IPv6 support is available when using perl 5.14 or later, see family(). 1.14 + 1.15 +Other reasons to use this module than strictly with a TELNET port are: 1.16 + 1.17 +- You're not familiar with sockets and you want a simple way to make 1.18 + client connections to TCP services. 1.19 +- You want to be able to specify your own time-out while connecting, 1.20 + reading, or writing. 1.21 +- You're communicating with an interactive program at the other end of 1.22 + some socket or pipe and you want to wait for certain patterns to appear.