Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > I can see ditching the telnet server, but the client remains useful for > debugging various protocols
For this purpose you're better off using ncat, which is included with nmap. > 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? There's inetutils as Marius mentioned, but ncftp is quite good as well. - Josh