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Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 00:43:48 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 11:35:33PM -0500, John wrote:
>"Andrew DeFaria" <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com> wrote in message 
>news:jllkeo$sjk$1 AT dough DOT gmane DOT org...
>> On 4/5/2012 4:40 PM, John wrote:
>>> Okay, I substituted 563 for nntps in the command like this:
>>>
>>> gnutls-cli --insecure -p 563 news.gmane.org | grep 200
>>>
>>> And it now works correctly. Exactly the same response from his linux 
>>> system
>>> was returned in my cygwin environment:
>>>
>>> 200 news.gmane.org InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.5.1 ready (posting ok)
>> Good.
>>> Am I understanding that this is an encrypted Telnet connection to gmane's 
>>> news server? Is the reason for the option "--insecure" needed because 
>>> this is not an authenticated logon? Thanks.
>> It's not a telnet connection. You're not using telnet! You're using 
>> gnutls-cli, which is not telnet.
>
>Fair enough, I like clarity too.  More precisely I could say that it is a 
>secure form of telnet-like communication, similar to OpenSSL or Putty, 
>perhaps. What do you think?

I think you should stick to just describing what you're trying to do.

You're trying to connect to gmane on port 563 using gnutls-cli.  Adding
telnet or telnet-like doesn't clarify anything.

>How could I determine whether the cygwin version 
>of it is making use of the latest version of GnuTLS, as shown here:
>
>https://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/

man cygcheck

List the modules on your system and note the version number.

cgf

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