Examples of using the telnet command

1. To connect to your account on the remote system known as "castor":

   % telnet castor

   Trying 129.215.112.8 ...
   Connected to castor.ucs.ed.ac.uk.
   Escape character is '^]'.
   SunOS UNIX (castor)
   login:

2. To start a telnet session and open a connection to the host "mstore-1":

   % telnet
   telnet> open mstore-1
   Trying 129.215.112.1 ...
   Connected to mstore-1.ucs.ed.ac.uk.
   Escape character is '^]'.
   SunOS UNIX (mstore-1)
   login:

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