[ale] telnet test

[Mike Fletcher]

On Apr 20, 2006, at 9:06 PM, Geoffrey wrote:

> Jim Popovitch wrote:
>> Christopher Fowler wrote:
>>>  perl -MIO::Socket -e '$s = new IO::Socket::INET 
>>> (PeerAddr=>"127.0.0.1",
>>> PeerPort=> 23, Proto =>"tcp") or die "$!\n";'
>>
>> Thank you Chris, I will try that.
>
> It's sweet, but I would expect you'd have better luck finding imap  
> on a
> box then the IO::Socket perl module.

IO::Socket (and children) are part of the core Perl distribution and  
have been for aeons.

$ perldoc perlmodlib | grep IO::Socket
        IO::Socket  Object interface to socket communications
        IO::Socket::INET
        IO::Socket::UNIX


If a box has perl but not IO::Socket it's got a broken (or at the  
least incomplete) perl install.