NetTerm Configuration Notes


The easiest route to telecommunicating is to simply download a telnet package. Do not use the one that comes with MS Windows as it does not communicate well with LINUX systems. This become critical when you enter the emacs environment.  These notes are from a MS Windows XP machine running NetTerm Release 4.2.


After installation, connect to your Internet Service Provider and start the application up.



 Open the File menu. Take the Phone Directory submenu.


Choose the Default Telnet configuration and change the settings to the following.
Host IP:online.oakton.edu
Telnet Port:23
Emulation:ANSI
Connection:TCP/IP
Keys:DEFAULT


After you've connected to your Internet Service Provider, click on the Connect button. The login prompt that you see will be the LINUX account that came with your enrollment.


In order to use the emacs editor in this environment, you must issue the unset DISPLAY command.


Having done this, you should issue the emacs command without the ampersand (&).


Once you're in the emacs environment you can type in and edit programs in a manner similar to what you do in the OCC labs, provided that you do not try and use your mouse.


The menus within the emacs system are available to you, but not by using your mouse.  To open the menu system up, strike the Esc key followed by the ` key (this backwards apostrophe key is just to the left of the number 1 in the upper left hand corner of most keyboards).


The letter in front of each command is what you should type to execute that command.  For example the sequence to compile our programs begins by opening the Tools menu by striking the letter t...


...followed by striking the letter c for the Compile command.


Similarly, you can leave the emacs environment by again striking the Esc` sequence.


This will give you access to the File command by striking the letter f...


...followed by the Exit Emacs command, which is generated with the e keystroke.


You can then end your telnet session by executing the exit command on the command line.

In this environment, you can perform all editing and compiling of programs for any CSC course.  Program executions that require GUI interfaces, such as Java applications and applets that use the Swing class, will require an Xclient such as VNC or MI/X.