To use telnet you need to specify the Internet address of the computer you wish to connect to, your user-name and password. You will be prompted for your user-name and password on the remote computer. Telnet connections can originate from any Unix computer, VMS computer, PC or Mac. If you are off campus and need to telnet to shakespeare, first telnet to studnt, and from there telnet to shakespeare. Alternatively you could use a secure shell connection from off -campus directly to shakespeare.
Secure shell allows interactive connections and file transfer assuring security of communication.
To connect in this way to shakespeare, you will need to install on your personal computer an ssh client. After you completed a transfer, always display the file and check if it was received without errors. Macintoshes These software packages provide a graphic interface to ftp in which you can drag files from one computer to another. They also handle transfers of entire hierarchies of directories. Standard ftp utility under Unix or Linux cannot transfer a hierarchy of directories but can pack a hierarchy of directories into a file using tar and tar compact it using gzip transfer to another Unix machine and unpack it.