During a session with a remote host, you can toggle between the local TELNET or TN3270 process and the connected host. For example, at the TELNET prompt, you might want to display status, modify a TELNET parameter, or spawn a DCL subprocess. o To return to the local TELNET or TN3270 prompt (TELNET command mode), enter the TELNET escape sequence (the default is Ctrl/]) at the remote host's prompt (TELNET input mode). o To resume your session with the remote host, enter one of the following at the TELNET (or TN3270) prompt. TELNET> <Return> or TELNET> RESUME or TELNET> RESUME n where n is the number of the session to which you want to return. o To change the default escape sequence, enter the following at the TELNET (or TN3270) prompt: TELNET> SET ESCAPE "^escape_character"
1 – Examples
1. The following example toggles between remote UNIX host biway and the local OpenVMS system. biway> <Ctrl/]> (characters not echoed) TELNET> SHOW STATUS Session 1 Active Host biway Port 23 Operating Mode: Character-at-a-time Escape character: '^]' Options: Echo - Remote Terminal Type - Local Terminal Type - VT300 Suppress Go Ahead - Local Suppress Go Ahead - Remote Terminal Dataoveruns: 0 Suspended Network I/Os: 0 . . . TELNET> <Return> biway> 2. In the next example, user BENTLEY, working at OpenVMS node EAGLE, uses TELNET to do the following: 1. Establish a connection to UNIX host fern. 2. Return to the local TELNET prompt. 3. Display status. 4. Establish a connection to host gannet. 5. Return to the TELNET prompt. 6. Display status. 7. Connect to sands. But sands closes the connection because BENTLEY incorrectly enters the password three times. 8. Try to resume the session with gannet. However, RESUME without specifying a session number fails: - With multiple sessions, RESUME's default is the "active" session, the one with the most recently opened connection. - The host to which BENTLEY connected most recently is sands. However, because BENTLEY incorrectly typed the password during login, sands closed the TELNET connection and displayed the following: No current session. - Because no connection is active (or current), BENTLEY must specify a session number on the RESUME command line. $ TELNET FERN . . . fern> <Ctrl/]> (characters not echoed) TELNET> SHOW STATUS Session 1 Active Host FERN . . . TELNET> CONNECT GANNET . . . gannet> <Ctrl/]> (characters not echoed) TELNET> SHOW STATUS Session 2 Active Host GANNET Operating Mode: Character-at-a-time Escape character: '^]' . . . Session 1 Waiting Host FERN TELNET> CONNECT SANDS %TELNET-I-Trying, Trying...11.18.222.95 %TELNET-I-SESSION, Session 03, host sands, port 23 -TELNET-I-Escape, Escape character is '^]'. . . . Username: BENTLEY Password: User authorization failure Username: BENTLEY Password: User authorization failure Username: BENTLEY Password: User authorization failure Remote connection closed TELNET> RESUME No current session TELNET> SHOW STATUS Session 1 Waiting Host FERN Session 2 Waiting Host GANNET . . . TELNET> RESUME 2 gannet> <Ctrl/]> (characters not echoed) TELNET> SHOW STATUS Session 2 Active Host GANNET Operating Mode: Character-at-a-time Escape character: '^]' . . . Session 1 Waiting Host FERN TELNET>