[cisb102a] Re: CISB 102 A - Lesson 4, Question 4
- From: bob van bennekom <alvbk@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: cisb102a@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 08:03:07 -0800 (PST)
Mary your the greatest!!
--- mary shellenbarger <mary_shellen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Telnet is a way to remotely login (connect directly)
> from your computer to another computer. This is
> done
> via the Internet?s TELNET Protocol. Therefore,
> provided you have the correct access and security,
> Telneting allows you to give the other computer
> commands so that you can create, edit, execute, and
> delete files as if you were sitting at a terminal
> connected to that computer. To Telnet, you are
> usually required to sign on as a ?guest?; but, some
> Telnet systems are setup to automatically log you
> in.
>
>
> To practice using Telnet, I used:
> telnet://140.147.254.3. This logged me into the
> Library of Congress? Information System. On the
> initial screen which is text based, you were given
> several choices, instructed to chose the appropriate
> number, and press enter. Some of the choices were:
> 1
> ? Copyright Information, 8 - Searching Hours and
> Basic
> Search Commands, and 9 ? Library of Congress General
> Information.
>
> I chose ?9? to get the General Information. This
> gave
> a brief description of the Library of Congress,
> phone
> numbers and their Web site.
>
> From this site, I learned Telnet is not as user
> friendly as using the Web, it seemed to be limited
> in
> the amount of information that could be displayed,
> and
> that I would probably never use it again unless I
> had
> to.
>
> References:
> http://www.ncl.ox.ac.uk/it/telnet.html
> http://osu.orst.edu/aw/tutorials/telnet/
> http://ic.ucsc.edu/~rsdio/docs/telnet/
>
http://osu.orst.edu/aw/tutorials/telnet/pctelnet.html
>
>
> Mary Shellenbarger
> Submitted to Listserve on 3/14/2002
>
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