On Nov 28 14:32:01, [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.

I'll try to port OpenBSD's base ftp(1).

> 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. :-)

The base nc(1) will do the same job better.


> What I'd kind of like is replacements built on source code
> of the closest lineage to what Apple used
On Nov 28 13:45:48, [email protected] wrote:
> You are looking for the inetutils port. 

 Attempting to fetch inetutils-1.9.4.tar.xz from
 http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.gnu.org/gnu/inetutils

That's quite the opposite of that, imho.

        Jan

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