I'm using telnet to log in to my modem for certain actions that can't be done via its web interface. The thread at http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-08/msg00124.html indicates that telnet is normally in Inetutils, and if I don't see Inetutils when running the cygwin Setup.exe, I should try another mirror. I use http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/sourceware.org/pub/cygwin and switching is not my favourite solution because in the past, using multiple mirrors led to packages being spread over multiple folder trees. If I want to replicate my cygwin installation and packages onto another computer, having multiple mirror folders makes it messy to create an install CD.
A much simpler solution seems to be to enable the DOS telnet.exe, which for Windows 7 is described at http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/910.windows-7-enabling-telnet-client.aspx. However, I want to run the resulting c:\Windows\System32\telnet.exe from cygwin rather than DOS so that I can capture the information using the script command. Unfortunately, telnet.exe does not seem to be visible to cygwin. That is, it shows up on Windows Explorer and when using DIR from DOS, but not using "ls" from cygwin's bash. I thought it might be related to permissions, but the properties for the file show that it is readable and executable by all. How might this file be invisible to cygwin? -- 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
