telnet and ftp missing in High Sierra - ideas/suggestions?

[Jan Stary]

On Nov 28 14:32:01, rlhamil at smart.net 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, lists at schamschula.com 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