Whats Telnet for?


 
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# 8  
Old 10-15-2004
Suggest you both (moxxx68 and epic.admin) read RFC854 and the man page for telnet.

Last edited by RTM; 10-15-2004 at 01:52 PM..
# 9  
Old 10-15-2004
insted of telling him its wrong google could you please explain why? and whats ment to be right?

abit like microsoft really, they only tell us when we are doin sumthing wrong
# 10  
Old 10-15-2004
Computer to the rescue..

Smilie thanx for correcting me google and thanx for the suggesting a site that i can also learn something from RTM..
by the way epic.. these are the real guys to help you learn...
moxxx68Smilie
# 11  
Old 10-15-2004
yeh thats kool Smilie thank guys
# 12  
Old 10-20-2004
Hammer & Screwdriver

why not using the cursedly i-net ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telnet

should help...also when you go by google or altavista you may find hundreds of sides about telnet protocol and so on.

you can also download the whole cd of the free wikipedia encyclopedia in german language

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia-CD/Download

so far......
# 13  
Old 07-01-2006
Lightbulb unix and ect.

epic....
if you dont mind me saying you need to read up a bit on certain topics such as hacking and unix. about a year ago i came upon a web page named "www.textfiles.com". its a page that gives detailed archives onto alot of topics such as unix and telnet. i hope it helps you out.https://www.unix.com/newreply.php?do=...ote=1&p=56965#
# 14  
Old 07-01-2006
ssh is the modern equivalent of telnet. It does the same thing over a secure channel, instead of sending passwords in plaintext and such.
 
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