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Telnet Telnet is a program which allows you to simulate a direct, terminal style connection, to another computer over the Internet. In other words, you can tell that computer to create, edit, execute and delete files just as if you were sitting at that computer. The computer which Telnet connects you to is called the Host machine or Server. The Telnet program which you use to connect to the Host is called the Client. When Telnet first connects to another machine, you will normally be presented with that machine's log in screen. Therefore, in order to succesfully connect with another computer on the internet using Telnet, you must have a valid username and password on the machine you wish to connect with. Some basic unix commands: logout - use this command to exit the system man - use the command (man command) to learn about a command pine - Program for Internet News & Email - is a tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic messages. rm - remove a file or directory ls - list files cp - copy a file mv - move a file (destroys original) less - view a text file touch - create an empty file chmod - changes permissions for a file or directory cd - change directory pwd - print working directory (the directory you are in) rmdir - remove directory (the directory must be empty) mkdir - make a new directory ping - check to make sure a remote machine is reachable |
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Windows Telnet Resourses: Telnet is built in to all Windows 9x Operating Systems. Go to Start  Run type telnet bway.net
or you can use Ewan Macintosh Telnet Resourses: Nifty Telnet NCSA Telnet |
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Logging on to the telnet server
Once you connect with telnet you will see an authentication prompt that looks like:
OpenBSD/i386 (ida) (ttyqb) login: [type your username here] Password: [type your password here] (Note: characters won't be visible as you type your password.) Then you will see the greeting from our server:
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ida:~$ After entering your login and password you should connect and get the prompt ida:~$. This is the command line prompt, and lets you know that the server is ready for your commands. |
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Pine
A simple telnet connection is sometimes the most convenient and fastest way to send and receive your mail. Telnet is useful for reading email on about any networked machine. This document is intended to help you become more comfortable with telnet clients and with Pine, the UNIX-based e-mail program. Note: 1. When reading your local mail it is important that you delete your mail when finished. If your inbox has become very large and you need to delete your mail read the section on how to delete your mail. 2. When using unix, commands are case sensitive. To be on the safe side always stick to lowercase letters. Type pine at the command prompt. If this is the first time using pine you will get a screen telling you it is the first time using pine and you will be asked several questions. Hit y for all of them. Once pine is loaded you will get a screen with the options:
Sending Mail To send mail hit c for compose. You will get a screen that looks like:
Next to To: and Cc: you can enter the names of the people you want to send messages to. Attchmnt: can be used to send a file in your local directory to someone by typing in the name of the file. Note: When sending mail through telnet files have to be on the machine you telnet into, and files on your personal machine have to be uploaded onto the server to be sent through pine. Next to Subject: you can put the name of the subject you want to send and under Message Text you can write your message. When you are done writing your message hit control-x and your message
will be sent.
N 1 Feb 7 Jason Priestly (367) happy groundhog day! N 2 Feb 7 info@bway.net (319) Hello N 3 Feb 8 dt@fiddle.com (324) can I borrow an E string? Select the number of the message you want to read using the up/down arrow keys. Now you should see your message:
The text part of your message will appear on the screen and another part will display which attachments are attached. To view your attachments hit v for view. The attachment screen will show up.
1 14 lines Text Select the attachment you want to view, and it will place it on the screen if it is text. If it is not text it will ask you if you want to save it to your local directory. Hitting y will allow you to save the file. Once you have viewed your attachments hit e to exit the viewer. Going back to the message hit e if you want to save the message to your home directory. Next hit d to delete the message and save disk space in your mailbox. Hitting i will return you to your list of messages where you can read the rest of them. Setting Mail Filters What are filters? Filters let you block (filter out) unwanted emails, commonly known as spam. For instance, if you keep getting unsolicited emails from somebody@aol.com you could set Pine to filter out those messages. From Pine's Main Menu (press m), goto Setup (s), then Rules (r), then
Filters (f). Press a to add, or return to modify an existing filter
profile. This will bring you to a group of options to set up your filters. Go to
the pattern you want to set (for this case we would make the sender pattern equal
somebody@aol.com). After you make the changes, press e to exit. Pine will
prompt you to save the changes, press y to accept them and you're done!
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