Welcome to the Termite Telnet Demo

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Telnet Directory 
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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
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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
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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
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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 
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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.  
