Use Telnet for chat??

**Pc_Madness** · Sep 3rd, 2002, 02:40 AM

Is it possible to use telnet for chatting over a network?

If so, how.

Thanks in Advance.

**JoshT** · Sep 3rd, 2002, 10:25 AM

Have both people people telnet into a server that runs a chat/talk program?

**kleptos** · Sep 3rd, 2002, 11:58 AM

You could write a little chat server in vb if you needed to. This would accomplish chatting over telnet.

**JoshT** · Sep 3rd, 2002, 01:04 PM

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...

**numtel** · Sep 3rd, 2002, 05:36 PM

you can't do that but if you've both got winnt/2k/xp you can use:

Code:

net send [their ip] [message]

**Pc_Madness** · Sep 3rd, 2002, 08:06 PM

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..

**Pc_Madness** · Sep 3rd, 2002, 08:35 PM

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??

**kleptos** · Sep 4th, 2002, 07:49 AM

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.

**Pc_Madness** · Sep 4th, 2002, 08:45 AM

Yeah.. maybe I could try and squeeze telnet users into chat program I've already made...

**Zaei** · Sep 4th, 2002, 09:15 AM

As long as your server program uses plain-text commands, it can be used with Telnet.

Z.

**Pc_Madness** · Sep 29th, 2002, 10:24 PM

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?

**parksie** · Sep 30th, 2002, 08:18 AM

Not really.

Anyway, the standard "talk" program echoes characters immediately.

**zmerlinz** · Sep 30th, 2002, 08:30 AM

if it is a windows 95 network, then you should have winpopup installed you could always use that as a poor alternative ??

**Pc_Madness** · Sep 30th, 2002, 08:37 AM

Yep, already tried that, but the Admins caught us.. but I somehow managed to get out of it without getting caught

**Pc_Madness** · Sep 30th, 2002, 08:41 AM

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.

**Evil_Cowgod** · Sep 30th, 2002, 11:35 PM

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.

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