A terminal type specifies the language that your telnet program will use to communicate with the remote server. Because both the client and the server must agree on which language to speak, it is important the terminal type is set correctly. Most clients should be set to either ANSI or VT100 . Usually you will find this in a submenu called something like Terminal , under a Settings or Configure menu. You might find it in the index of your manual under Terminal or Emulation .
Printing allows a user to print remote output to their local computer.
In order for this to work, the program on the remote machine and the telnet client that you are using must support the escape sequence used in the printing process. In other words, the remote program takes advantage of an escape sequence that the telnet client recognizes as a print command. For this reason some people choose to use a different program for remote access. SSH is one program that encrypts all data passed between the client and the server. SSH may not be supported by all hosts you wish to connect to, but is available on WAM, GLUE, and the OIT cluster.