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Telnet Survival Guide

This web page contains info about Telnet.  It is very slim because my knowledge and interest is very slim!

Telnet - Survival Guide (access to unix servers)

bulletWindows Telnet Clients
bulletTera Term Pro - http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html - a free software terminal emulator (communication program) for MS-Windows
bulletUsing DOS.
bulletGo to a DOS prompt
bulletWin NT 2000 - Start, Run, cmd.exe  (note: this will allow "doskey.exe" command retrieval to work also!
(Note: c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe)
bulletWin NT 2000 - Environment Variables for "path" - Start, Control Panel, System, Advanced tab, Environment variables.
bulletWin NT 4.0 -
bulletWin 95/98 - ? command.com ?
bulletc:\> telnet [unix server name]
(Note: usually located @ c:\windows\system32\telnet.exe)
bulletNext enter your userid and password when prompted.
bulletUnix Commands (Survival Guide)
bulletls - list files in a directory
bulletcd - change directory
bulletpwd - print working directory
bulletcp [file from] [file to] - copy a file  (options -R = recursive)
bulletdel [filename]
bulletmkdir [directory name]
bulletrmdir [directory name]
bulletmv [filename_from] [filename_to]
bulletmore [filename] - displays the contents of a file to the screen.
q=quit, z=page down.
bulletlogout - logout of Telnet session.
bulletwhoami - displays your user login name.
bulletsu [logon ID]
bulletchmod [permission #] - change permissions.
bulletchgrp [new group]
bulletchown [new owner] - may only be allowed by superuser or administrator.
bulletTerminal setup commands
bulletset -0 vi
bulletexport TERM=vt100
bulletUnix Permissions
bulletr-read (value=4)
bulletw-write (value=2)
bulletx-execute (value=1)
bulletPermissions listed:  owner/group/public
bulletChange permissions with command:  chmod
bulletchmod 777 [filename/directory] - everyone all rights.
bulletchmod 664 [filename/directory] - read/write for owner & group, read only public.
bulletchmod 775 [filename/directory] - read/write/execute for owner & group, read only for public
bulletCommand History
bulletk = down
bulletj = up
bulletl = right
bulleth = left
bulletcw = change word
bulletx = delete
bulletCTRL-C = quit
bulletESC