[GreenKeys] Computer to teletype module...

[Jordan Spencer Cunningham]

At least in the United States, telnet *used* to be native to MacOS, but it
is no longer (I think as of Sierra or High Sierra). I know netcat has never
been native. You're from down under, yes? Could be Apple thinks Aussies can
handle telnet and netcat whilst holding it back from us Yankies. MacBooks *are
*the favored platform of hipsters around here, after all. Aside from 1960s
colorful typewriters, that is (I own many typewriters myself, but
absolutely none of them are colorful).

Homebrew has a very active community with packages being updated basically
every day. I have run into somewhat outdated versions of youtube-dl and
ffmpeg before, though. Macports is much older and more mature, and thus has
many more packages. I can't speak to whether some packages fall behind in
Macports like has happened a few times in homebrew (youtube-dl, ffmpeg). I
like homebrew generally, though.

This has now gone far off into the weeds and will probably get us in
trouble for being completely OT. Probably time to say goodnight. Goodnight.

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 5:45 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Feb 2018, Jordan Spencer Cunningham wrote:
>
> On a related note, there is, of course, iTelex. While not a USB option,
>> you could connect to it over your network (or across the internet, for that
>> matter) with your Mac using simple tools like telnet or netcat (install
>> homebrew to get either easily) to send/receive text.
>>
>
> Both "telnet" and "nc" are native on my MacBook (Sierra); there's also
> "macports" which seems to be better supported than "homebrew".
>
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