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
