Welcome to node HOOPLE. Now running Opus 2.0
username: pdq
password: <type your password here>
Last login 23:14:55 15-JUN-1752
You have mail.
% <now type whatever commands you like until . . . >
% logoff <or bye or quit or exit or whatever>
Session with hoople.usnd.gov terminated at 21:19.
home> <now continue issuing commands on your home computer>
This method of connecting to another computer is called "telnetting". In effect, you have used the local computer to telephone the remote computer. You can now do anything on the remote computer (with certain restrictions) you could do if you were "actually" logged on.
SPECIAL PROBLEMS WITH TELNETTING
Sometimes telnetting will put you into a menu-type program or even a "screen oriented" program. A special problem here is getting the other computer to recognize what type of screen you have. Since most communications software "emulates a terminal", this amounts to telling the other system what type of terminal your communications system is emulating.