Telnet usage

Flightgear comes with a internal telnet server that can be used to read end set values within the [Property_Tree|property tree] structure. The telnet feature can be activated through the --telnet=port option, where port is the number of the listening port that will be opened.

Usage with a telnet client

Once a connection is established to the server,

Commands

A list of command is available to you to be entered in any telnet connection, if you don't remember the commands, just write ? and press enter to get the following list:

• cd <dir> cd to a directory, '..' to move back
• data switch to raw data mode
• dump dump current state (in xml)
• get show the value of a parameter
• help show this help message
• ls [<dir>] list directory
• prompt switch to interactive mode (default)
• pwd display your current path
• quit terminate connection
• run <command> run built in command
• set <val> set to a new <val>