Example of a telnet session

This is an example of a telnet session on MACH. Text in italic are comments, text in bold is user input, text in "code" is output on the screen.


Trying 134.184.129.3...
Connected to mach.vub.ac.be.
Escape character is '^]'.

SunOS 5.7

login: username
Password: password
[ password will not be shown while typing it ! ]

Last login: Wed May 19 12:42:31 from mach.vub.ac.be
Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.6 Generic August 1997
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Welcome to MACH, the Mail And Communication Host at the Computing Centre
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This is a private computer facility. Access for any reason must be
specifically authorized by the owner. Unless you are so authorized,
your continued access and any other use may expose you to criminal
and/or civil proceedings.
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Any user attempting to install or run an application that has not been
installed by the system administrator will see his/her access to MACH
closed (and we don't joke about this). MACH is NOT your regular UNIX
system, it is a network server.
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New policy as of 1 July 1998 : e-mail messages older than 90 days will
be systematically removed from the incoming mailboxes on MACH (POP).
Read more about it at http://www.vub.ac.be/BFUCC/announce/oldmail.html
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As of this academic year the VUB/ULB Computing Centre has extended its dial-in
services with PPP access for university members (students and staff).

Details can be found on http://www.vub.ac.be/BFUCC/
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You have mail.
limiting cputime to 500
Paper credit for username: 64

[ Next you need to the specify the "terminal emulation". vt100 will do nicely in most cases ]

TERM = (vt100) vt100

[ Next you type the key you wish to use to erasing typing errors ]

Type in the key you want to use for erasing characters (^?)

[ Screen will be cleared and you arrive at the main menu in which you have several possibilities to start working. Simply type the character corresponding to the action you wish to perform.
In the example below, we will create a personal FTP directory on the Anonymous FTP server ]

Welcome to MACH, the Mail and Communication Host at the Computing Centre
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Choose one of the following items to start your activities:

c) Change your password

m) Read and send mail
n) Read Internet News
b) Browse the Internet ...

w) Create a personal WWW homepage ...
e) Edit files

p) Change your preferences ...
!) Escape to UNIX environment

q) Quit session

Your choice => w

[ You will be shown the next submenu, where we will choose f to create the FTP directory ]

MACH menu system

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Manage a personal WWW homepage ...

n) Create a personal homepage
d) Remove a personal homepage

c) Correct homepage file permissions

Manage a personal FTP site ...

f) Create a personal FTP site
r) Remove a personal FTP site

Type the ESCAPE or BACKSPACE key to return to the previous menu

Your choice => f

[ You will be shown some information about the FTP site, after which you can return to the menu above. You can then type the escape or backspace key to return to the main menu.
To quit the session when you have finished working, type 'q' on the main menu ]

Welcome to MACH, the Mail and Communication Host at the Computing Centre
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Choose one of the following items to start your activities:

c) Change your password

m) Read and send mail
n) Read Internet News
b) Browse the Internet ...

w) Create a personal WWW homepage ...
e) Edit files

p) Change your preferences ...
!) Escape to UNIX environment

q) Quit session

Your choice => q

Connection close by foreign host.

[ The session has been terminated and the session window can be closed if not already done automatically. ]


VUB/ULB Computing Centre
Created: 12 September 2001, Modified: 12 September 2001
Email: User Support Group.