Thanks - that's what I wanted.

Those don't appear to be Kerberized, unlike the ones in Sierra (AFAIK); but for 
me, that's not a problem.


> On Nov 28, 2017, at 14:45, Marius Schamschula <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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] 
>> <mailto:[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
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> 
> 
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