Telnet is a method used to communicate to another machine. You use telnet to
access a terminal window on a remote machine. It is as if you were sitting
at the console of that machine (character based). You cannot however
transfer files through telnet. You would use ftp to do that with. It is
somewhat basic but very widely used.
If you are using a Windows machine open up a dos window and type telnet and
press enter. This invokes the telnet application and from there you can do a
help and topics to find a vary basic description of its operation. If you
are on a UNIX or Linux machine it becomes very powerful. Do a "man telnet"
or "info telnet" and see all of the options. It will give you a little more
detail of its use.
But basically it is just an access window to a remote machine.
Best Regards,
Doug
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From: Sally [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 9:18 AM
To: perl
Subject: FW: Telnet
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From: Sally [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 14 June 2001 13:53
To: perlcgi
Subject: Telnet
I've seen lots of references to telnet, but I can't find an explanation of
what it actually is. Is it similar to FTP?
