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Foil 10 Internet Services: Telnet

From Introduction to World Wide Web (WWW) ECS400 Senior Undergraduate Course -- Spring Semester 97. by Nancy J. McCracken *

1 Telnet basically allows you to log in to a system over a network just as though you were logging in from a terminal attached to the system or from a dial-up modem.
2 You may use telnet from a command line such as:
    • > telnet nova.npac.syr.edu
3 where you give the internet name of the machine that you wish to connect to. The telnet service will proceed to ask you for a name and password just as if you were logging in.
4 Or you may have a telnet program which prompts you for the same information.
5 Between two unix systems, you can use the rlogin command instead.
6 Mostly, you must already have an account on the machine to log in. There are a few publicly available telnet machines, such as the FAA Flight Service at duats.gtefsd.com, where student pilots can log in to get the latest weather data.

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