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A simple way of testing our ReverseServer is to use a telnet client to connect to it.  Both Unix/Linux and Windows come with a telnet client.

You can start the Windows Telnet client by clicking on the Windows Start menu's Run... menu item, and entering 'telnet' at the resulting prompt:

and clicking on the OK button.

This results in the telnet client coming up in a console window, where you will need to set the telnet client's mode to local echo:

Then you connect to the specified host and port using the open command.  For example, for our ReverseServer, running on the local machine, and listening on port 5000:

This command connects to the server, and the contents of the window changes to:

As the previous window indicated, a Ctrl+] will allow you to return to the other mode.

Now, you can interact with the ReverseServer:

Note that an empty line causes the ReverseServer to close down, which closes the connection.  In other words, this version of the ReverseServer only handles a single client, and then exits -- not too useful!