While exploring Telnet I learned that one of its uses is for connecting to web servers. Also that Telnet uses basic UNIX commands (http://www.elated.com/tutorials/management/unix/basic/) Telnet seems an awful lot like FTP, but supposedly better because you can talk to other users on Telnet and test your CGI script (pretty handy) To practice I used telnet://134.4.10.106 IPAC which kind of confused me for a minute. I ended up finding an author named George. I decided to use Microsoft's Telnet that comes with XP by going to Start - Run - and then typing telnet in the box. I went to http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/telnet_commands.mspx and messed around with some of the stuff. I found it somewhat difficult at first but I got the hang of it. It reminded me of using Qbasic and DOS. Ashley Anderson