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.TH TELNET 1 .SH NAME telnet \- make a remote telnet connection .SH SYNOPSIS .B telnet .I machine .SH DESCRIPTION .B Telnet uses the Telnet protocol to talk to a remote .IR machine , addressed using any form acceptable to .IR dial (2): .IB net ! host ! port in general. The default .I net is .BR tcp , and the default .I port is 23, the standard Telnet login port. .PP .I Telnet connects to the given .I machine and interprets the Telnet protocol. It reads data from its standard input and sends it to the remote machine, and copies to the standard output the data it receives from the remote machine. .SH SOURCE .B /appl/cmd/telnet.b .SH SEE ALSO .IR cpu (1) .br ``Telnet protocol specification'', RFC854 (1 May 1983) and related RFCs.