Use the Windows Telnet Client for text communication to a switch or Just Add Power device.
If your computer does not yet have the Windows Telnet Client enabled, you will get a warning message when attempting to launch Telnet from the Windows Command Prompt that says 'telnet' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
Enabling Telnet only needs to be done one time.
telnet
then press [Enter]o
followed by the IP address of the target device, then press [Enter]