Summary of telnet commands

To ...                           Do this ...




Connect to a remote system       telnet> open remote_system_name

Suspend a telnet connection      Ctrl ]
and return to the telnet
prompt

Close a connection to a          Ctrl ]
remote system                    telnet> close


**Suspend telnet and work on     telnet> z
the local system

**Resume the use of telnet  	 prompt% fg
                                 telnet>

End the telnet session           telnet> quit

To display a list of telnet      telnet> ?
commands

To get an explanation of a       telnet> help name_of_command
command

** These commands only work if you are using the C shell, Korn shell, TC shell or BASH shell.

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