Chapter 7 - Internet 7-13TelnetThe Telnet application is activated in the Internetapplications main view by selecting Telnet andpressing Select. The Telnet application is used tomake a connection to a remote computer in or-der to use its applications over the Internet. TheTelnet application functions and looks very muchlike the Terminal application. Both applications,Telnet and Terminal, emulate the VT100 terminaldisplay (see figure 7-8). The display occupies thewhole left side of the screen. The screen size is 80characters in 24 lines.Once a Telnet connection is established, youmust in most cases enter your login name and apassword in order to be able to use the servicesprovided by the host computer. The Telnet mainview shows all already defined Telnet hosts.To connect with one of the defined Telnet hosts,select a host and press Connect (see "Telnet con-nection").To create new or edit existing connections, pressDefine. See "Defining Telnet connections".Defining Telnet connectionsAfter you have pressed Define in the Telnet mainview, the defined Telnet connections are shown.To edit existing connections, press Edit.To define new Telnet connections, press New.To delete the selected connection, press Delete.Pressing Edit or New opens the Define Telnetconnections view, where you can define the fol-lowing settings:Connection name — Edit an existing or enter anew connection name. The name can be definedfreely.Destination host — Edit an existing or enter anew connection address. The host is identified byeither a numeric IP address or a correct textualhost name.Internet access — Select one access providerfrom those currently defined. To change the pre-ferred access provider, press the Change com-mand button.Backspace key — Defines whether the keyboardbackspace key is used as a backspace (BS - de-fault) or delete (DEL ) key.Telnet connectionWhen you have connected to the remote system,the following commands become available (seefigure 7-8):Press Keys to emulate the VT100 special keyswhich are not available on the communicatorkeyboard. The special keys include four program-mable function keys (PF1-4), all VT100 applica-tion keypad keys (numbers 1-9, minus, comma,period, dash, enter) and the following VT100functions: reset terminal, Ctrl-\, Ctrl-], Ctrl-~. Inthe case of a Telnet connection, these specialkeys include the following commands (can beused in remote systems that support them):Interrupt — for interrupting the current proc-ess on the remote computer.Skip command output — to prevent commandoutput from being displayed on the screen.Are you there? — for enquiring whether theremote system is still running (if the execu-tion of a task seems to take too long).inet.frm Page 13 Wednesday, January 15, 1997 12:46 PM