home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!sgiblab!sgigate!sgi!cdp!agaccess
- From: David Katz <agaccess@igc.apc.org>
- Newsgroups: alt.bbs
- Date: 20 Jan 93 23:35 PST
- Subject: Re: Telnet what the heck
- Sender: Notesfile to Usenet Gateway <notes@igc.apc.org>
- Message-ID: <1297400073@igc.apc.org>
- References: <5577@ettarre.lulea.trab.se>
- Nf-ID: #R:ettarre.lulea.trab.se:5577:cdp:1297400073:000:741
- Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!agaccess Jan 20 23:35:00 1993
- Lines: 20
-
-
- telnet allows you to make an internet link with a computer
- (aka "a machine") so telnet is a command that you issue to your
- host machine that is linked to the internet.
- The numbers are an address that the machine understands.
- You can also tell it a name. For example, I use a
- machine here in Davis, CA to connect with a machine in the
- SF bay area called "the WELL" I tell my host machine
- telnet well.sf.ca.us and it connects me to the WELL via
- the internet. I could just as easily have told my machine
- telnet 192.132.30.2 and it would do the same thing.
- Get it?
- You probably can't use it because you don't have an
- internet-linked machine.
- Try to contact a commercial vendor who can get
- you linked into the internet.
-
- cheers!
- agaccess@igc.org
-
-