If you don't have a telnet program, you can get one for free. Check the Brand X Home Page, somewhere down near the bottom are links to sites that have telnet for Mac or Windows.
You may also be able to telnet using Netscape. This depends on which version you have, and how it is configured. If you want to try it click here. If it doesn't work, you may want to go back and download that software.
NCSA Telnet is the most popular telnet program for Macintosh. You can stat the progam by double clicking on the NCSA Telnet icon. The computer will come back with a dialog box. Enter the name of the computer you want to connect to under "host/session name". A moment later a window will come up and you can log onto our computer.
Here is a sample of how to start a telnet session at Brand X internet. We are assuming that you have already connected with a program such as NCSA Telnet.
login: jimp
Password:
Last login: Sat Nov 11 17:40:28 from 204.137.205.102
Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 Berkeley Software Design, Inc.
Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
You have new mail.
California, n.:
From Latin "calor", meaning "heat" (as in English "calorie" or
Spanish "caliente"); and "fornia'" for "sexual intercourse" or
"fornication." Hence: Tierra de California, "the land of hot sex."
-- Ed Moran
cellini %
Note the parts of the session: login, I type my username, then password, I answer with my (secret) password, then the computer comes back with the date, the copyright of the operating system, a note that I have some mail and a cute quote before brining up the system prompt (in this case it's "cellini" but this varies from computer to computer even at Brand X Internet.)There is more detailed information on Telnet in the Brand X Help Page dedicated to this subject. Check the table of contents.
To log in you need to use your username and password. Here's an example. Note that the password is not echoed, but you do have to type it in. Note also that you can not use a PPP username to log in to Unix session.
BSDI BSD/OS 2.0 (brandx.net) (ttyp1)
login: jimp
Password:
Last login: Sun Aug 4 17:23:32 from A00.brandx.net
Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 Berkeley Software Design, Inc.
Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
BSDI BSD/OS 2.0 Kernel #0: Fri Feb 3 17:51:37 MST 1995
Use of this software is governed by the BSDI End User Software License.
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Brand X % ls .README .Xresources-mosaic .mailrc .Xmodmap .Xresources-xterm .profile Brand X %
Brand X % ls -al total 76 drwxr-xr-x 2 david user 512 Jul 10 22:21 . drwxrwxr-x 1352 root wheel 22016 Aug 3 17:00 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 david user 2046 Apr 4 22:29 .README -rw-r--r-- 1 david user 1262 Jul 10 21:06 .cshrc -rw-r--r-- 1 david user 1951 Apr 4 22:29 .fvwmfmgr Brand X %As you look at the above file listings, you will see the following columns:
access permissions, owner, group, size, modification date, name For example, check the listings for .README:
Access: -rw-r--r-- Owner: david Group: user Size: 2046 Modification Date: Apr 4 22:29 Name: .README
Brand X % pwd /usr/home/david Brand X %
Brand X % ls -al -rw-r--r-- 1 root user 0 Aug 4 17:46 myfile Brand X % mv myfile yourfile Brand X % ls -al -rw-r--r-- 1 root user 0 Aug 4 17:46 yourfile Brand X %Note that when we listed out the files, we found the file was there with the new name.
Brand X % ls -al myfile -rw-r--r-- 1 root user 0 Aug 4 17:46 myfile Brand X % rm myfile Brand X % ls -al myfile Brand X %Note that when we listed the files, it showed nothing.
Brand X % mkdir testdirectory Brand X % ls -al total 77 drwxr-xr-x 3 jimp wheel 512 Aug 4 18:22 . drwxrwxr-x 1352 root wheel 22016 Aug 3 17:00 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 jimp wheel 512 Aug 4 18:22 testdirectory
Brand X % rm -r testdirectory Brand X % ls -al total 77 drwxr-xr-x 3 jimp wheel 512 Aug 4 18:22 . drwxrwxr-x 1352 root wheel 22016 Aug 3 17:00 .. Brand X %