Please would you explain: What is telnet? What is a shell account? Bastiaan
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 07:43:43 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote: > On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 18:16:48 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote: >> Perhaps in your area, shell accounts are common-place. >> Such is not the case here. >> CisNet does not offer this service. >> Nor does any other ISP in this area. >> (that I have been able to find) > Dial up shell accounts are rare in many places. But remote shell > accounts that you can "telnet" into don't have to be local. They > can be anywhere on the Internet. Sam H. lives in Virgina and the > shell account he uses "sdf.lonestar.org" is located in Texas. You > could use an account on that same system from Ohio or China. And you > could do that with DOS and Arachne via telnet. > Sam Ewalt > Croswell, Michigan, USA > -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ - ************************* Technische Redactie CQ-PA Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ ************************* Attentie: e-mail adres bij Wanadoo niet meer gebruiken! [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.hetnet.nl/~ba8tian/index.html ** Virusvrij e-mailen? => Arachne browser/mailer **
