Richard, This has come up on several occasions.
You are looking for the inetutils port. Under High Sierra it installs the missing server and client utilities. > On Nov 28, 2017, at 1:32 PM, Richard L. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: > > I can see ditching the telnet server, but the client remains useful for > debugging various protocols, and in rare cases of accessing ancient systems > (or emulations of them) which don't support ssh. > > Likewise, there remain times a command-line ftp client is useful. > > I see some of what look like command-line ftp client(s) in MacPorts. Is > there a particular one people would recommend as the least surprising > replacement for the removed ftp client? In particular, similar interface and > features (IPv6 a must). I installed both cmdftp and pftp, and neither really > has a very similar interface. > > But I don't see a command-line telnet client at all (not counting whatever > might be part of putty). IMO, that absence will be noticed. :-) > > What I'd kind of like is replacements built on source code of the closest > lineage to what Apple used, but still being maintained. I see the telnet > client still in their remote_cmds tar bundle, but I have no idea how to build > bits of Darwin without trying to build the whole dang thing (as I recall, > libtelnet/encrypt.h or something like that wasn't found, for example), which > is way beyond the scope of what I'd care to attempt. > > (yes, I know they dropped the r-commands even earlier; that's understandable, > but telnet and ftp remain useful) > > Marius -- Marius Schamschula
