To connect to your account on the remote system known as "castor":
telnet castor Trying 129.215.112.8 ... Connected to castor.ucs.ed.ac.uk. Escape character is '^]'. SunOS UNIX (castor) login:
To start a telnet session and open a connection to the host "mstore-1":
telnet telnet> open mstore-1 Trying 129.215.112.1 ... Connected to mstore-1.ucs.ed.ac.uk. Escape character is '^]'. SunOS UNIX (mstore-1) login: