Source for Telnet Commands

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Is there a good online source for the commands that can be used in telnet. Know some of the basics, but know you can do much more.

{For Patrick - especially somewhere besides Communitech }

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telnet> man telnet
that will give you almost all of them.

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Mike L.
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I guess what you are talking about is, what you can do in a telnet-shell, isn't it?

The Windows OS includes the MS-DOS prompt which is quite similar to a UNIX-shell. But different than the DOS-prompt a UNIX-shell is nothing unique. Actually there are several programs for shells available and when your system-administrator created your account, he had to choose which of those shells you are 'dropped in' when you log in. And because the shell-programs are all different it's hard to tell you how they work. Each one has it's own commands, but a lot of them are the same in any shell and with any Operating-System.
To give you a short overview, this little list might give you an impression of some basic commands and their equivalents in MS-DOS:

code:

UNIX                      MS-DOS
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ls                        dir
ls -la                    dir /A
cd                        cd (e.g. cd .. will bring you one directory up)
perl                      perl (runs a perl-script)
grep expression filename  none, the command searches the file for the 
                          given expression and returns any lines with this expression
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if you want to edit a file in telnet, you will have to use the VI-editor. there are several other (and more comfortable clients available, but not installed on every machine). For documentation on the vi-editor read http://www.ectoweb.de/linux/vi-refcard.html  .
hope this helps a little   
later

[This message has been edited by Patrick A Baer (edited 03 December 1999).] 

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Buy a Unix book

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