Hi Kevin, My feelings exactly. Telnet seemed like it required learning a new language. I'm not good at that either. It's also hard for me when my command is not shown on the screen and directions are not readily available. I didn't know what to do. Alyson "There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats" Albert Schweitzer >From: "Kevin C" <kgc61@xxxxxxxxxxx> >Reply-To: citw150@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >To: citw150@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: [citw150] Lesson 4 Question 6 Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 23:42:32 >+0000 > >To learn about Telnet I went to the tutorial at: >http://www.infoboard.com/infoboard/telnethelp.htm >I basically understand that telnet is a way to connect to another computer >and run commands on it, the same as if you were actually at that computer. > >After reading the basics about what Telnet is and how it operates I tried a >few different telnet sites to get an idea of what it was all about. I >instantly recognized the little black pop-up box as one of the sources of >my >past computer frustrations. Even though the directions seem so easy and >straightforward, I always seem to mess up when using telnet. > >I went to the Library of Congress Telnet site: telnet://locis.loc.gov:23/ >One thing that I have noticed is that when you type in a command it does >not >show anything entered, but when you hit return it executes the command. >This >makes it a little disconcerting to those of us that are not real >experienced >with computers. > >I also tried playing around with Telnet at a game site: >telnet://3k.org:5000/ >Frankly I found it a bit boring and didn?t really understand why anyone >would want to play games in such an austere internet environment. > >Kevin Culling > > >