On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Hal wrote: > Actually, Telnet is not a web browser. It is a terminal program for > connecting to (host) server systems that support command-line > connections. Telnet is the standard connection software used in Unix > systems, for example. If you are running OSX, you can launch the > terminal app and type "telnet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" and it will attempt to > connect to that server via command line interface.
As you probably know, however, SSH has all but wiped telnet out over the last five years or so; telnet sends everything unencrypted, including passwords and everything you type, so it was trivial to listen for telnet activity on a network and find out all kinds of ill-kept secrets. So, rather than "telnet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx," I would suggest that "ssh xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" would be more likely to connect to an arbitrary IP address (including an OS X based Mac). I run MacSSH (last version, see link below) on my Mac SE/30. It takes a bunch of RAM to run, though. With 8MB installed, I could run it and use its built-in FTP server to upload files to my Mac, but it wouldn't open an SSH session. When I upgraded to 20MB, it worked fine, so there's some hope that it may run on a Classic II, with its limit of 10MB. Someone really ought to port PuTTY, the free Windows SSH client, to 68k Mac. It's tiny! (Anybody got a development kit for Mac OS 7?) MacSSH is available from http://pro.wanadoo.fr/chombier/MacSSH/SSH_info.html -- Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
