In our ordinary work, we often write some automatically scripts which login in the server to run some commands and performce some actions based on the result of the commands. In this case, a telnet client library will be very helpful. Such a library is very handy in Perl, Python and Ruby. But I googled it a lot and failed to find one in Common Lisp. So I decided to port the Telnetlib from Python to Common Lisp. Why port from Python? Because I am more familiar with Python and have use its TelnetLib before :-)

The functionality of this library is almost the same as Python's one. But the interface is a little different.