On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 03:22:09PM -0800, Suzanne Stephens wrote:
> I just opened two new accounts on Pair.com. Their "welcome" email tells me
> to use Telnet to login to zais.pair.com, where I'll be prompted to give a
> temporary password, then I'm supposed to change to a permanent password.
>
> Well, I hate to admit how stupid I am, but I've never used Telnet, have no
> idea what it is, where to get it for my Mac or how to use it.
Telnet is really two things that are involved with each other:
1. It's a protocol that allows interactive login sessions.
2. It's a client application that lets you use the protocol to converse
with a machine running the server on the other end. (In the 'nix world,
that's "telnetd", short for "telnet daemon".)
It's one of the oldest pieces of 'net technology, though offhand I
seem to recall that FTP predates it.
So when someone says "telnet into foo.bar" they usually mean "I'm
going to use a telnet application that will open a terminal window
on my end and connect me to the remote machine on the other end."
Yep, you're talking command-line interface.
Hmmm...a Mac client? <backs away hastily> Ummm...errr...I dunno.
But I'm going to guess that (because it's so simple) that you probably
have something on your machine that does FTP and TELNET and PING and
maybe a few other things, all in one application.
Darn if I know what it is, though.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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