Nokia 9000i Communicator - Telnet connection

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Telnet connection

When you have connected to the remote system,
the following commands become available (see
figure 7-8):

Press Keys to emulate the VT100 special keys,
which are not available on the communicator
keyboard. The special keys include:
• Four programmable function keys (PF1-4)
• All VT100 application keypad keys (numbers

1-9, minus, comma, period, dash, enter)

• The following VT100 functions: reset

terminal, Ctrl-\, Ctrl-], Ctrl-~.

In a Telnet connection, these special keys include
the following commands (can be used in remote
systems that support them):

Interrupt — Interrupts the current process on
the remote computer.
Skip command output — Prevents command
output from being displayed on the screen.
Are you there? — Enquires whether the remote
system is still running (if the execution of a

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task seems to take too long).

The selected special character is entered to the
left of the cursor by pressing Insert. The inserted
special characters send a control signal to the re-
mote computer – they are not displayed on the
screen.

Press Zoom in if the whole emulated screen and,
consequently, character size is too small. The
Zoom out command returns the unzoomed view.
When the view is being zoomed, the scroll keys
can be used to switch between the upper and
lower parts of the terminal screen.

Press Texts to activate the text transfer com-
mands, see "Defining Telnet connections: Text
transfers" on page 7-17.

Press Hang up to close the connection to the
host, end the data call and return to the Telnet
application main view.

The scroll up/down buttons can be used for
scrolling the view. Scrolling does not affect the
cursor position. Pressing any keyboard key re-
turns the view to the cursor position.