Copyright: Thursday, October 07, 1999 10:32:56


Displays the Connect dialog box you can use to 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.


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


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


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


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


Selects the entire contents of the Telnet window.


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


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


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


Starts Help and displays the topics in Telnet Help.


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


Describes how to use Help.


Displays version and copyright information about Telnet.


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


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


This dialog box appears when you click Preferences on the Terminal menu. 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


Displays all your keyboard input. It is recommended that you select this check box after you connect to the remote system and before you connect to another system.


Causes the current cursor to blink on the screen.


Causes the cursor to be shown as a block.


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


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


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


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


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