For some weird reason when attempting to run the Windows version of telnet under Cygwin it returns to a prompt without connecting.
So you need to install the Cygwin Package that contains a telnet client which is: inetutils
Run the cygwin setup.exe and choose inetutils.
Installing inetutils gives you the following utilities:
ftp.exe
iu-config
rcp.exe
rlogin.exe
rsh.exe
syslogd-config
talk.exe
telnet.exe
tftp.exe
ftpd.exe
inetd.exe
rexecd.exe
rlogind.exe
rshd.exe
syslogd.exe
talkd.exe
telnetd.exe
tftpd.exe
uucpd.exe
I used cygcheck.exe to list the above:
cygcheck.exe -l inetutils | grep bin | cut -d/ -f4
Note: If you haven’t restarted your cygwin terminals and you are running bash you will need to run hash -r to get your terminal to forget about the windows telnet.exe and use cygwins version.
Thanks, I was also looking for the telnet in cygwin and could not find the package where it is.
Thanks! I looked and looked for a tftp client for Cygwin and was going insane. This saved me a lot of time 🙂
I installed inetutils, but when I run “telnet”, I get following error.
/usr/bin/telnet/exe: error while loading shared libraries: cygncursesw-10.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
ideas?
Sounds like you are missing a dependent package
Rerun setup.exe and select to install libncurses10.
As per here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg19972.html
i have installed libncurses10 ,but the error is still