Windows telnet client that does carriage return on LFs

Question

I have a customized box sending mostly LFs for line breaks (sometimes CRLFs too).

I wish to connect to it from a Windows box using telnet, but it seems it won't do the carriage returns where lines end with LF only.

I have tried PuTTY, HyperTerminal and the Command Prompt telnet client... Any ideas?

Answer 1

In PuTTY, have you tried activating the setting "Implicit CR in every LF" (it's under Terminal)?

Answer 2

Netcat is a great open-source tool which can be used to replace telnet in some cases.

Don't know if a windows version exists out there, but it could be worth compiling it !

To telnet a host :

$ nc host port

To get the html of a webpage :

$ echo "GET /" | nc host 80

Quick and dirty Syslog server :

# nc -l -u -p 514 

It will print on screen what was sent to the server.