Remote System

Displays the Connect dialog box so you can specify the remote system to which you want to connect. Telnet keeps track of the four most recently connected systems. These system names appear at the bottom of the Connect menu.


Disconnect

Ends the connection to a remote system so you can connect to another system or end your session.


Exit

Exits Telnet. If you click Exit while a connection to a remote system is still active, Telnet disconnects you from the remote system automatically.


Copy

Copies selected text to the Clipboard, leaving the original text intact and replacing the previous Clipboard contents.


Paste

Inserts a copy of the Clipboard contents at the insertion point.


Select All

Selects the entire contents of the Telnet window.


Preferences

Displays the Terminal Preferences dialog box, which you can use to configure preferences for screen color, text display, and emulation modes.


Start Logging

Captures the screen output of Telnet commands to a .log file.


Stop Logging

Stops capturing the screen output of Telnet commands to a .log file.


Contents

Starts Help and displays the topics in Telnet Help.


Search For Help On

Opens the Search dialog box for Help. You can look up Help information by typing in keywords.


How to Use Help

Describes how to use Help.


About Telnet

Displays version and copyright information about Telnet.


Connect

This dialog box appears when you click the Connect menu, and then click Remote System. Type the name of the host to which you want to connect, and then click Connect.


Auto Retry

This dialog box appears when the computer attempts to connect to a remote host. The host may be busy or the host name may be incorrect. Click Abort to stop the attempt.


Terminal Preferences

This dialog box appears when you click the Terminal menu, and then click Preferences. All changes to default values are saved on a per-user basis.

Fields

Local Echo

Blinking Cursor

Block Cursor

VT100 Arrows

Buffer Size

Emulation Options

Fonts

Background Color


Local Echo

Displays all your keyboard input. After you connect to the remote system and before you connect to another system, you should probably select this check box.


Blinking Cursor

Causes the current cursor to blink on screen.


Block Cursor

Causes the cursor to be shown as a block.


VT100 Arrows

Determines which character sequence is sent when you use the keyboard arrows.


Buffer Size

Specifies the number of lines of text that you want retained in memory so that you can scroll through it in the window.


Setting Emulation Options

Specifies the terminal-emulation type (VT-52 or VT-100).


Fonts

Displays the Fonts dialog box, from which you can specify the appearance of text in Telnet.


Background Color

Displays the Background Color dialog box, from which you can specify the background color for the display.


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