Is it possible to use telnet for chatting over a network?
If so, how.
Thanks in Advance.
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Is it possible to use telnet for chatting over a network?
If so, how.
Thanks in Advance.
Have both people people telnet into a server that runs a chat/talk program?
You could write a little chat server in vb if you needed to. This would accomplish chatting over telnet.
Yeah, but you don't even need telnet for that - just a normal TCP connection. I don't understand where telnet is going to come into play...
you can't do that but if you've both got winnt/2k/xp you can use:
Code:net send [their ip] [message]
No, its a Win 95 network. The problem is, I don't have the time to install my chat program on all of the computers (about 25), and more than half don't have working floppies anyways. So I was hoping I could use Telnet as a boring alternative to having to install it on every client computer.
Now that I think about it, its not a bad idea..
But how could I get them to chat with a username?
Could I use the server to send the new user a message saying enter a username, and then every time that user sends a message, find its appropriate username??
:)
Depending on the chat server, you could use their login username, network username, computer name, or request a name. If you build a chat server, there are tons of ways to accomplish this.
Yeah.. maybe I could try and squeeze telnet users into chat program I've already made...
As long as your server program uses plain-text commands, it can be used with Telnet.
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Well, at the moment, when a telnet user connects, it sends every character that they send, not when the user presses enter.
Is it possible to change some settings in Telnet so it doesn't do this?
Not really.
Anyway, the standard "talk" program echoes characters immediately.
if it is a windows 95 network, then you should have winpopup installed you could always use that as a poor alternative ??
Yep, already tried that, but the Admins caught us.. but I somehow managed to get out of it without getting caught :D
Sorry, when I mean caught.. our messages were sent to the server in the library, so they were reading them. lol, and one of the librarians is my form teacher, so I had to pull some serious crap to make them believe that someone had cracked my password. :)
Well if there is a windows NT or a unix machine there you could bring in netcat and set it up as your chat server if its just between two people. Hmmm Im not realy all that helpful lol.