what is a good freeware telnet program?

Question

what is a good freeware telnet program?

Answer 1

PuTTY is good and feature rich. Kermit has probably the best terminal emulation anywhere. Avoid Microsoft Windows telnet - the emulation simply isn't up to scratch. Even curses-based apps on Unix (usually reasonably conservative in the assumptions they make about terminals) fail to work properly most of the time.

Answer 2

* PuTTY is a free, open source SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and raw TCP client for Windows, Linux, and Unix.

* AbsoluteTelnet is a telnet client for Windows. It also supports SSH and SFTP,

* Host Explorer part of Hummingbird Connectivity; it implements the telnet, TN 3270, 5250, Ansi, and other protocols.

* RUMBA (Terminal Emulator)

* IVT VT 220

* Line Mode Browser, a command line web browser

* NCSA Telnet

* TeraTerm

* Passport from Zephyr Corp, available as both regular executables and a web-based SSH/Telnet application

* SecureCRT from Van Dyke Software

* TeSSH from Zugg Software for Windows based upon the zMUD and CMUD code base also supports SSH and SFTP

* ZOC SSH client

* SyncTERM BBS terminal program supporting Telnet, SSHv2, RLogin, Serial, Windows, *nix, and Mac OS X platforms, X/Y/ZMODEM and various BBS terminal emulations

Answer 3

PuTTY. But Telnet's usually installed by default.

Answer 4

Telnet is built into Windows.