>Mark Roth wrote:
>I finally found out a little bit about TELNET. I wanted to use it to
>delete some files from my email server. I was able to login OK and it
>seemed to accept the deletions I wanted to make. But I know I need a
>successful update to get them to work and I couldn't do it. I tried entring
>UPDATE and I got back an -err message. When I tried the QUIT command I also
>got an -err message for that butit did quit and return to Arachne. It did
>not successfuly delete the messages. What else can I do to get it tpo work?
>Is there something wrong with the copy of TELNET that I have?
>
-Bart replied
-You'll have to use the external FTP (ftp.exe) that comes with telnet.apm.
I'll hav eto learn about FTP.EXE. I don't yet know anything about it
except using ftp:// instead of http:// for transfering files instead of
downloading pages.
-Probably you'll have to open anather server (like "open ftp.xs4all.nl"
-instead of "xs4.xs4all.nl") if you use it manually).
What's xs4.xs4all.nl?
I started TELNET by pressing the [T] key.
My server is pop.hotpop.com. When I used TELNET I logged in with the
command:
telnet> pop.hotpop.com 110
telnet> user myusername
telnet> pass mypassword
Then I entered the delete comands for the messages starting with:
telnet> dele 26
telnet> dele 25
And so on until I did all of the first 26 messages
Then I tried to use a command trhat I wasn't sure would work, and it didn't.
telnet> update
telnet> -err
Then I tried a command that really should have worked but it didn't either.
telnet> quit
telnet> -err
Then it returned me to Arachne
-Yet if you use telnet on a unix shell account, try "mc" for a change.
What do you mean? is there a "mc" command for TELNET or FTP and what does
it do?
-The function keys can be replaced by <escape> with the number key
-(<esc><1> instead of <F1>)
