Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > On Aug 7 17:36, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >> On 8/7/2013 5:18 PM, Andy Davidson wrote: >> > >> >Hi, >> > >> >I have the latest Cygwin, setup is v2.819 (64 bit). I want to install >> >telnet but the inetutils package isn't in the installer any more. It >> >doesn't seem to be in the last version I installed around a month ago. >> >Any clues ? >> >> <http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=bin%2Ftelnet.exe> >> >> The package still exists and 'telnet' is in there. Try a different >> mirror if the one you're using isn't showing the package.
> Andy was asking about 64 bit. Inetutils hasn't been ported to 64 bit > Cygwin yet, that's why it's missing. I'd suggest to use ssh instead. > Telnet is inherently unsecure and ssh is a wonderful replacement. Unfortunately, it doesn't work where you explicitly need to use telnet. F.e. to connect to PON terminals. Though, I fail to see, how Cygwin telnet is different from, say PuTTY. Or native Windows telnet. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 08.08.2013, <14:57> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
