Sending text over port/listening on port?

[benign]

Does any batch trickery exist such that it would be possible for a client to send a cleartext series of strings over a socket to a host listening on port n? I've googled around and haven't found much.

[foxidrive]

Telnet probably suits that requirement.

A scriptable telnet tool can be had from google with:

Telnet Scripting Tool v.1.0
by Albert Yale ay@aci.qc.ca http://ay.home.ml.org/