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What is Telnet, and what MacOS Telnet Programs are there?

April 26, 2017Apple Macintosh MacOS modem networking OS Programs Telecommunication telnet

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What is Telnet, and what MacOS Telnet Programs are there?

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Telnet is a high speed terminal connection protocol designed with TCP/IP in mind. A Telnet program allows you to connect to computers that accept Telnet sessions (such as UNIX boxes) with interactive full-screen console input and output capabilities. There are several Telnet programs for the Macintosh. NCSA Telnet and succesors (BetterTelnet and MacTelnet) The most widely known and used is the freeware NCSA Telnet for which developement stopped January 1, 1996. The last ‘offical’ version was 2.6 though there is a 2.7b4 available. There are serveral succesor programs which improve on the NCSA Telnet code. One such freeware successor is Sassy Software’s BetterTelnet (Version 2.0fc1) which uses the 2.7b5 code and provides many bug fixes, an improved interface, and additional features. Both of these programs support TEK 4105 graphics, provide both an FTP server *and* client, and can do session logging. About the only drawback is that these progra