.TH TCPCONNECT 1 "1997 April 13"
.SH NAME
tcpconnect \- general TCP/IP client
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B tcpconnect
.RB [ -irv ]
\fR[\fB\-l \fIlocaladdr\fR]
.I host
.I port
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B tcpconnect
creates a TCP/IP connection to a server running on the machine
.IR host ,
listening to port
.IR port .
It then reads standard input and sends to the remote server, and
data received from the server is printed to standard output.
When end-of-file is reached on both standard input and the TCP/IP
connection,
.B tcpconnect
terminates.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-i
Terminate at end-of-file on standard input; don't wait for the
server to close the connection.
.TP
.B \-r
Terminate when the remote server closes the connection; don't
wait for end-of-file on standard input.
.TP
.B \-v
Verbose mode.
Prints a message to standard error when the connection has been
established.
.TP
.B \-l \fIaddr\fB:\fIport
Bind the local end-point of the connection to IP address
.IR addr ,
TCP port
.IR port .
Either the IP address or the port, but not both, may be left out,
meaning that the operating system gets to choose that part by
itself.
.SH SEE ALSO
.PD
.BR tcplisten (1),
.BR telnet (1),
.BR tcpbug (1).
.SH BUGS
The names of the options are not yet finalized, and may change
at a future release.