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Re: Telnet and FTP to Historic

Adam Roach <adam@nostrum.com> Thu, 03 December 2020 17:43 UTC

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Subject: Re: Telnet and FTP to Historic
To: Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com>, ietf@ietf.org
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From: Adam Roach <adam@nostrum.com>
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On 12/2/20 13:12, Michael Thomas wrote:
>
>
> On 12/2/20 8:38 AM, Adam Roach wrote:
>> On 12/1/20 23:00, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
>>> [That said, I am a little peeved at the lack of a telnet system on 
>>> some platforms as I frequently used it to connect to a raw port and 
>>> rest out services.]
>>
>> If it helps: I've yet to find a system that lacks both telnet and nc 
>> (netcat) out of the box.
>>
>>
> I don't think MacOS has telnet out of the box. I vaguely remember 
> having to go through quite a few hoops to get it. But I am a pretty 
> clueless Mac user, so it was probably mostly my fault.
>

Yep, macOS doesn't come with telnet. But it seems to always have nc 
installed at /usr/bin/nc -- and the man page certainly gives the 
impression that the systems ship that way, since there are a bunch of 
interesting new options prefixed with "--apple-"

/a

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