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Comment by lysium | Hacker News Reader

Nice touch with the choice of the port number! Now I only have to install telnet on my Mac to be happy! Thanks for the project!

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I always like to have a look at what is being usurped, when choosing fun/apposite ports: -

  % grep 1989 /etc/services 
  tr-rsrb-p3      1989/tcp                # cisco RSRB Priority 3 port
  tr-rsrb-p3      1989/udp                # cisco RSRB Priority 3 port
  #mshnet         1989/tcp                # MHSnet system
  #mshnet         1989/udp                # MHSnet system

netcat should work (only tried it in wsl, where the terminal wasn't sending the correct signals for arrows, though)

telnet is preinstalled.

Interestingly, not for the newer versions of OS X http://osxdaily.com/2018/07/18/get-telnet-macos/

Or even “newer” versions of Windows. I think they stopped including it in Windows 7.

Oh wow, that's terrible.

Why? The tiny % of people who need telnet are perfectly able to install it themself.

you can brew install it trivially, but yeah my 2018 MacBook Pro with macOS Mojave didn't have it preinstalled.

No (since High Sierra IIRC)

Wasn't for me

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