Telnet

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At 09:59 PM 9/26/98 -0400, Brian K. Berger wrote:
>
> > Okay, NOW you have my attention.  What is a MOO?  And how do I access  
> > telnet:elilabs.com:7777?
> > 
> > Jerry Welch
>
>I am not sure of the exact wording, but it is a way you can chat with
others online. The telnet command is one you use to login to the MOO. Open
your webbrowser and instead of a http://www type address just type
telnet:elilabs.com:7777, or if you have used a mail program that links to
your browser, click on the link to take you there.

Telnet is the "kind" of program that you use (some folks call it a method)
that is used to make all of these various internet connections.  Telnet,
if I'm not mistaken, uses the TCP/IP protocol to connect from host to
host.  Since it's built-in to Unix/Linux machines you'd normally only 
have to type at the command prompt....

      telnet elilabs.com 7777

 where "telnet" is the program executed
   and "elilabs.com" is the machine you're connecting to
   and "7777" is the port you're specifically making a connection with

Telnet typically gives one a way to connect to the other machine.  Typically
when it initially connects, it'll give the user a session of 80 characters
wide by 24 lines long to achieve whatever work that's there to achieve.  In
real life, on the unixes/linuxes, telnet is a real sterile program and doesn't
have much overhead to the computer as well as very few bells and whistles.

When a unix/linux user uses "telenet" while he's running his/her programs
from within X (short for X-windows), technically he/she can spawn a different
Windoze like window for each telnet session.  Having multiple connections to
the same host if desired.

On a Windoze machine, if you want a better telnet client to use, my personal
favorite which will give you cut-n-paste capability is available at tucows
(very large shareware source ... there's a tucows mirror at my employment
place at tucows.mcp.com) ... on the URL ...

           http://tucows.mcp.com/term95.html

... there's mention of a telnet client called "CRT" that's just hunky dorey
and does a pretty good job of connections and give the user a way to set 
preferences, fonts, colors, size of window, etc. for however they would like
to connect.  The official URL of the CRT downloadable is...

           http://tucows.mcp.com/adnload/dlcrt.html

CRT stands for "Cathode Ray Tube" which was the original name of the hardware
used to do work on a computer.  The version at tucows expires every 30 days.
So you'd need to keep a copy of the configuration file from one install to
pre-populate the settings of the next time when you go to re-install the same
software (you don't even have to erase the setup.exe that you download, just
re-install it).  Then after it's re-installed, copy the "saved" version of 
the config file (usually crt.cfg) ontop of the one that you just set up and
all of your preferences are back for another 30 days.

Thats what I did at mcp.com until they decided to buy me a fully licenced 
copy of CRT because it was becomming a monthly ritual to get things working
when it "timed out" at the end of 30 days.

Bro Tyler
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