[olug] href="telnet://nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn"

Noel Leistad noel at noelleistad.com
Wed May 3 22:42:45 UTC 2006


Lane,

Link was awesome. Hats off to a "better googler"  :-)

Even worked one up for ssh://

That one doesn't work in Windows, but goes fine in Linux/Firefox.

Thanks alot.

Noel

Lane Roberts wrote:

>xterm -e "/usr/bin/telnet"
>will give you a new window with telnet running, but as far as I know,
>telnet *nix doesn't understand protocol strings like telnet://host -
>so you will probably have to feed it to a small shell script that will
>parse out the host name -- aha, see
>http://www.freelists.org/archives/juneau-lug/03-2006/msg00059.html
>for ideas
>
>Lane
>
>  
>





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