Imagine my surprise when I dropped down to the console to telnet to a remote computer and was told, ever so politely:
‘telnet’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
Huh? Telnet has shipped with every version of Windows since the dawn of 3.1 or so – why stop now? Rather than go on yet another MS-rant at such a blatant movement of cheese, I found you can easily enable telnet on Vista by going to:
Control Panel -> Programs -> Turn On Off Windows Features -> Check Telnet Client
After a reboot (naturally), order was restored.
I believe it was Windows For Workgroups (3.11) that first included Telnet. I don’t think 3.1 had network support to speak of.
But instead of using MicroSloth’s terrible telnet client (which, like Notepad, is remeniscent of a badly done Computer Science 101 class project), try putty or cygwin. Or just end the suffering altogether and use Ubuntu.