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Starting and Terminating Telnet

You can start Telnet by double-clicking on the Telnet icon in the ftpAxe Programs' folder:

The Telnet Connect Host dialog box will appear on your display:

A session is a set of settings that are assigned to a connection to a remote machine. These settings are saved in an ini-file and allow you to have different preferences for different hosts (using different ini-files).

All Telnet session settings are stored in the [TELNET] section of the XWP.ini file.

The first thing you should do to initiate a session is to establish a connection to a remote machine. In the dialog, you can specify the hostname or IP address, and the port number of the service.

Host

This field specifies a hostname or IP address (network node specification) of the remote machine you want to connect to (and which provides the Telnet service). When you click on the scroll arrow beside the Host box, a drop-down box will display host definitions located in your hosts file. To select a host, click on an appropriate definition.

Port

This field specifies the port number of the Telnet service on the remote machine you want to connect to. The default port number of the Telnet service is decimal 23.

To establish Telnet connection, enter the network name or IP address of the host you want to connect to, then change the default Telnet port number if required, and press OK. Telnet connects and logs into the specified hostname.

Once you have connected to the host, the host name or IP address you specified appears at the top of the Telnet window (with the terminal emulation mode), and the host login prompt appears in the window:

You must prove your identity to the remote machine using some authentication method (e.g., password authentication). Specify the login information required for your host system. You can then interact with the host by choosing commands from displayed menus, or by typing commands in the window and starting remote applications.

You can customise your Telnet session with the Settings and/or Keyboard Mapping items in the Options menu (described below).

The following sequence of commands can be used as an example of working in the Telnet session:

login: arsexam
$ DISPLAY= xtp2:0; export DISPLAY
$ xterm&
$ mwm&

To capture the screen output of Telnet commands to a file, Telnet writes the log to the telnet.out file in the home directory (in case of fatal errors or due to the 'trace' command line parameter).

You can terminate a Telnet session by choosing the Close command on the Control Menu box, or by selecting Exit on the Telnet Commands menu.

If you select Exit while a connection to a remote system is still active, Telnet disconnects you from the remote system automatically (properly closing all applications used).

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