mike@penguin.gatech.edu (Mike Gourlay) (12/03/90)
Hi folks, I need to open up a telnet port from a program and write and read to and from it. That sounds pretty common to me. I noticed that HPUX completely lacks anything resembling telnet.h Someone tell me that I'm having a nightmare. HPUX is weird, okay, being an interesting mix of System V and BSD, but what is going on here? It isn't as if telnet(1) isn't on HPUX. I use it. The problem is that you can't popen("telnet someplace.domain.org", "rw") because telnet writes and reads the tty, not stdio. I need to telnet to someplace, but I'm not about to implement the entire telnet protocol. I have a package of telnet routines that would work if it were not for that I lack <arpa/telnet.h> I would like someone to tell me that someone has played a big practical joke on me, took root access for a minute, and mv'ed telnet.h to someplace, and now I have to go find it. RIGHT? How, if HP did in fact leave out telnet.h, am I supposed to open a telnet port? Has anyone wanted to do this before on an HPUX machine? I have a 9000s370 in case that is relevant. Thanks in advance, Mike Gourlay