BCIS 82 - Lab Assignment 10
Telnet

Part #1 Using Hytelnet to locate Telnet sites.

Get a copy of this lab. Click HERE to obtain a submission sheet. Use the editor, to complete the answers on the submission sheet. E-mail this form to your instructor.

Using Netscape/Internet Explorer/Telnet/Gopher find the following ......

  1. Using Hytelnet, find a library whose catalog is accessible via the Internet. Connect to that catalog and determine if it has any books on the subject of United States History.

Hytelnet sites: (Note: some Hytelnet sites are available on the Web.)

http://galaxy.einet.net/hytelnet/HYTELNET.html
http://www.cam.ac.uk/Hytelnet/index.html
http://www.cc.ukans.edu/hytelnet_html/START.TXT.html
http://www.einet.net/hytelnet/HYTELNET.html
gopher://liberty.uc.wlu.edu:70/11/internet/hytelnet
http://library.usask.ca/hytelnet

Provide the following information

Name of site

Telnet address (URL)

Login: Password:

What to type to Exit

Library name

Book title

Book author

Part #2 - Using Telnet to find information

When doing telnet, remember that you are at a remote computer and the key strokes must match those of the remote computer not Cerritos. Be careful to use the proper case. Use the help function to determine the commands at the remote computer.  Before going to a remote or just when you first arrive at a remote site, determine what must be typed to exit the remote system.  It can be very frustrating when you can't figure how to exit a remote site.

Use one of the following methods to do this lab.

Method 1: Using telnet through your browser

Open up your browser.

In the Location (go to:) space type in the following: 
    telnet://address    (where 'address' is the internet address for the remote computer)

Press enter.

A telnet session window will open and you will be asked to login.

Method 2: Using telnet at DOS prompt

Click on 'START', next click on 'PROGRAMS'

Then click on 'MS-DOS command' or 'Command Prompt'

Enter the following: 
    c:\>telnet  address   (where 'address' is the internet address for the remote computer)

Press enter

A telnet session window will open and you will be asked to login.

Method 3: Using telnet through your ISP

Depending your internet provider, many of them will have a telnet option available to you.

Often there is a button or icon for telnet.  If this is the case click on this symbol to start telnet.

You might need to use the help features of your provider to find out how to access telnet.

Method 4: Using QVT telnet from Cerritos College terminal To do this portion of this assignment open the Alpha Terminal session.

Click on the Alpha (Terminal) connection.

When the Sign-on prompt appears, click on 'File' then click on 'Open'.

This will bring up the 'Start Terminal Session' dialog box.  Enter the address you want to connect to in the space at the left (Host name or IP address).

In the Right box (configuration) select 'default', then click OK. This will connect you with the remote site.

Select Three (3) of the following:

You might want to try one of the sites marked with an *. These are Freenet sites.
You may do 2 other sites for 6 bonus points (3pt each).

  1. Telnet to sjsulib.sjsu.edu or 130.65.100.1
    Use login name lib (for library).
    From the menu displayed, select O on main menu, then Beethoven Bibliography Database. Search this database to identify works that deal with Beethoven's deafness. See if you can also find any works that compare Beethoven and Schumann.
    2. Telnet to culine.colorado.edu 862
    Type QUIT to exit. 
    Tell me what you found out about the service.
    Telnet to panda.uiowa.edu
    Choose: General information | Star Trek Reviews
    Type QUIT to exit
    Tell me what you found out about the service.
  2. Telnet to locis.loc.gov
    Find information on "National Information Infostructure"
    (Hint: You will not find this in the Library of Congress Catalog!)
    Type 12 to exit. 
    Tell me what you found out.
    3. Tenet kwvs.nkw.ac.uk
    User name = library.
    Type EXIT to logoff. 
    What is the name of the site you are accessing?
    List two references to the 'Grand Canyon.'
    Telnet to academ02.mty.itesm.mx
    The login = itesmcat. 
    Find a book published by 'Villalobos'
    Give the name of the book
    The complete name of the author.
    This site is in spanish.
    Smithsonian Institution
    telnet siris.si.edu or 160.111.4.22
    Press RETURN at the TS> prompt
    To exit, type STOP 
    What type of information is available here.
    Identify one item you found.
    CapAccess: National Capital Area Public Access Network
    telnet capaccess.org or 198.69.201.50
    login: guest
    Password: visitor 
    What did you find at this site.
    Identify one item.
    University of California/MELVYL
    melvyl.ucop.edu
    Terminal type = VT100
    Exit = END
    Use the Periodical database to search for a topic related to this learning community. Use the following Search structure. 
    FIND PE topic (where topic is what you are looking for)
    Mail the results of the search to yourself. MAIL # 
    TO: smith001@cerritos.edu (where # is the number of the information you want sent to your account.)
    Provide the title, of the article you found.
    Search the book catalog 'CAT' FIND SU subject (SU stands for subject) 
    or FIND PA author (PA stands for personal author)  
    or FIND TW title (TW stands for title) 
    Provide the title, call number and location of a book you found on a topic of your choice. Provide the search topic you used.
    Telnet to fedworld.gov or fedworld.doc.gov  (online service of "National Technical Information Service, Department of Commerce." Choose: Government databases, libraries etc.

    What did you find?

    Include a portion of what you found.

    Search UCI for a book on a topic of your choice.
    antpac.lib.uci.edu
    Exit = F 
    Find two (2) titles, and call numbers of books which are on topics for the class.
    What topic did you search for?
    Chapman University
    Clarke.chapman.edu
    login: library
    password: library
    Exit select D on Main Menu 
    Find two (2) titles, and call numbers of books which are on topics for your class.
    What topic did you search for?
    Claremont College
    library.claremont.edu
    login: library
    Exit select H on main menu 
    Find two (2) titles, and call numbers of books which are on topics for your class.
    What topic did you search for?
    *Eugene Free-Net
    EFN.EFN.ORG or 198.68.17.1
    login: guest
    Password: HIT RETURN 
    List a job available in Eugene, Oregon.
    List a event scheduled for that area.
    CSULB
    Coast.lib.csulb.edu
    terminal type VT100
    exit - Q (from the main menu - If on other menu select NEW to return to main menu.) 
    Find two (2) titles, and call numbers of books which are on topics for your class.
    What topic did you search for?
    CSUDH
    opac.csudh.edu
    login: opac
    exit select 3 on main menu 
    Find two (2) titles, and call numbers of books for a topics of your choice.
    What topic did you search for?
    *Telnet to freenet-in-a.cwru.edu
    Use login name visitor.
    From the menu select "guest user".
    Browse the Cleveland Free-Net and list two things you found.

Last updated September 7, 1998