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Welcome to the Termite Telnet Demo
If you have any questions please feel free to contact us at:
Oregon Research
16200 SW Pacific Hwy, Suite 162
Tigard, OR 97224
Phone: 503-620-4919
Fax: 503-624-2940
Technical Support: 503-968-9250
E-Mail: orders@orres.com info@orres.com
WWW: www.orres.com/~orres
Telnet Directory
****************
When you start Termite Telnet, the Telnet directory window will
be displayed. This is essentially an address book of Internet
destinations. Machines are listed in the directory by their
domain name. You may also specify a standard IP address instead
of the domain name, but these are much harder to use.
To add a favorite telnet site to the directory, type the sites
domain name into the input gadget and click on Add. When you
click on Add, the Site Specific Settings window will appear.
The name you entered will appear in the Site Gadget. You may also
add a site by clicking on Add with a blank input gadget. In this
case you will need to enter the site name into the Site gadget of
the Site Specific Settings window. You may optionally add a port
number after the domain name or IP address if you are connecting
to a telnet server operating on a port other than the Internet
standard telnet service port. So, if you wanted to connect to
port xy of orres.com you would type orres.com xy into the site
Gadget.
The remaining options in the Site Specific Settings Window allow
you to set up an automatic login procedure that is executed when
you select the Login button from the Telnet Directory window.
Most telnet servers immediately display a login: prompt after
connection. For these sites, both the Service Prompt and Service
Reply gadgets should be left blank. However a few telnet servers
have a service prompt that must be negotiated before the login
prompt is displayed. The service prompt is usually Enter service
or help: and the command to access telnet is usually shell. If
your destination requires a service prompt and reply, then enter
them in the appropriate gadgets of the Site Specific Settings
window. Only the last 5 or 6 characters of the Service Prompt
need to be entered, whereas the entire Service Reply must be
entered.
The User and Password gadgets allow you to enter your user name
and password for automatic login. Only the Site gadget is
required to be completed. The automatic login gadgets are
optional. To add the new site to the Telnet Directory, click on
Use. Click on Cancel if you decide not to add this site.
The balance of the buttons in the Telnet Directory window manage
entries in the Telnet directory and allow you to connect to
sites. If at any time you wish to review or edit any of the site
specific settings for a particular site, click on the site in the
Telnet directory so the name appears in the input gadget. Then
click on the Edit gadget and the Site Specific Settings window
will be displayed allowing you to review or edit any of the
entries.
To delete a site from the list, click on the site name you want
to delete. It will become highlighted and appear in the input
gadget. Click on Delete to remove the site from the list. After
you have added, deleted, or edited a site from the Telnet
directory, you must click on Save to have Termite Telnet save
and remember the changes.
Initiating a Telnet Session
***************************
The difference between Login and Open is whether an automatic
login is attempted. If you select Login and have a user name and
password specified in the Site Specific Settings, then an
automated login will be attempted. If you select Open, then a
connection will be made allowing you to perform an normal
interactive login. If you select Login and have no user name and
password entered, then it will act as if you had selected
Open(i.e. open a connection for an interactive login).
There are several ways that you can command Termite Telnet to
connect to another computer.
* Click on the site you want to connect in the Termite Telnet
directory. The site name will be highlighted and will appear
in the input gadget. Then click on Login (for an automatic
login) or Open (for an interactive login)to instruct Termite
Telnet to open a connection to the site.
* You can type in the domain name of the site you want to visit
and then click on Login (for an automatic login) or Open (for
an interactive login) to instruct Termite Telnet to open a
connection to the site.
* The easiest way to instruct Termite Telnet to open a
connection to a site is to double click on the site name in
the Telnet directory. This is the same as clicking on a site
name and then clicking on Login.
After you have instructed Termite Telnet to open a connection,
Termite Telnet will close the Telnet directory window, open a
terminal window, attempt to open the connection. There are three
possible results from the attempted connection:
* Unknown Host This condition will occur if:
* The domain name that you entered on the input gadget does
not exist
* The IP address could not be resolved from the entered
domain name.
If you receive this message, close the terminal window using
the close window gadget and check the spelling of the site to
which you are attempting to connect. If the site does exists
and for some reason the Internet domain name resolver is
failing to locate it, then try finding out and typing the
site's IP address directly in the Telnet directory input gadget.
* Connection Refused This condition will result if Termite
TCP is able to successfully locate the requested site, but
for some reason that site refused to accept the open
connection request. This could occur if:
* You are attempting to connect to a site that does not
accept telnet logins
* You specified a port number that does not exist(see
section on Ports)
* The site is temporarily not accepting logins(system
maintenance etc.)
* Successful Connection If Termite TCP is successfully
able to open a connection to the remote site, a terminal
window will be opened. An automatic login will be attempted
if instructed to do so otherwise you will be able to login
interactively by entering your user name and password. Note
the terminal size indicator in the window header and the
resize gadget. Many UNIX programs will not function properly
unless they are displayed on a 80 column by 24 or 25 row
terminal window.
Menu Options
************
After you are connected to a site, a number of options are
available from the menu bar after the Terminal window has been
displayed. These options primarily involve setting attributes of
the VT102 terminal emulation and visual characteristics of the
terminal window.
Terminating a Telnet Session
****************************
To terminate a telnet session, click on the close window gadget
in the Termite Telnet terminal window. If you are logged on to a
host remember to log out before closing the telnet session. It
is not considered good netequitte to simply drop the connection
without logging out. The Terminal window will close, and you
will be returned to the Telnet Directory window.
Quitting the Telnet Client
**************************
To quit the Termite Telnet client select Quit from the Telnet
menu. This may be done from either the Telnet Directory window
or the Telnet Terminal window. If you are logged on to a host
remember to log out before quitting the telnet client It is not
considered good netequitte to simply drop the connection
without logging out.