Actually, someone picked up NCSA telnet and made "Better Telnet", which
fixed a bunch of longstanding "issues". 

http://www.cstone.net/~rbraun/mac/telnet/

It's a worth successor.

-dgl-

> > Or as a last resort, does anyone know of a telnet package for MacOS 7?
>> Whenever I mention such a thing to the handful of Mac users I know their
>> eyes glaze over. Must be fear of the command line.
>
>NCSA Telnet is the standard bearer and has been around for ages. I used
>the Mac version in college.
>
>There's also www.macssh.com, which is based on NCSA Telnet but includes
>ssh2. It's a bit poky on 68K (even on my 50MHz IIci) but it works well.
>
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