Re: [9fans] 9 Atom - installation troubles

[Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net>]

Quoting erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>:

> On Sat Dec  6 05:38:15 PST 2014, lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote:
>> > smtp=host!987
>>
>> Too clever!  I'm not sure it would work, though, because in
>> /sys/src/upas/smtp/mxdial.c the invocation is explicitly:
>>
>> 	addr = netmkaddr(addr, 0, "smtp");
>>
>
> this works, and it's common practice.  if it did not work,
> telnet wouldn't work on anything other than port 23.
>
> the reading of the 3d argument is "default port", not
> we're forcing this port come hell or high water.
>
> - erik

This is detailed in the manpage for dial(2), which I know
because I went through the exact process Lucio did but
concluded there was no way someone would make things that
hard for themselves... so I checked the documentation.

Never hurts!

khm