The Windows Vista Telnet FAQ was a good place to start. Having no further clue, the helpful prompt gave me a clue, the list of basic commands and syntax. So away we go, open a connection to Deakin Library then take a stab at the 2 choices for kind of terminal I am using - it’s 50/50, it’ll either work or break. Clear sailing from here and I’ve got the results in an email.

Telnet to Deakin Library for Author Bennahum

Record 1 of 2

TITLE Managed care : financial, legal, and ethical issues / edited by
David A. Bennahum.
PUBLISHED Cleveland, OH : Pilgrim Press, 1999.
PHYS DESCR p. cm.
SERIES The Pilgrim library of ethics.
CONTENTS 1. The Crisis Called Managed Care / David A. Bennahum — Pt. 1.
Legal Issues. 2. The Historical Roots of Managed Care / Jake
Spidle. 3. How Law and Regulation Shape Managed Care / Robert
L. Schwartz. 4. Implications for Vulnerable Populations / Jay
A. Jacobson — Pt. 2. Financial Issues. 5. The Economics of
Managed Care / Max D. Bennett. 6. Financial Incentives to
Physicians / David H. Johnson. 7. Impacts on Medicaid and the
Uninsured / Daniel J. Derksen, Saverio Sava and Arthur Kaufman.
8. Impacts on Public Teaching Hospitals / Stephen W. McKernan.
9. Impacts on Biomedical Research / Laura Weiss Roberts, Janet
L. Brody and Teddy D. Warner / [et al.] — Pt. 3. Ethical
Issues. 10. The Ethics of Managed Care / Joan McIver Gibson.
11. Gatekeepers and Gatekeeping / Richard H. Rubin. 12.
Futility and Extraordinary Care / Lawrence J. Schneiderman. 13.
Persons with HIV Disease / Bruce Williams.
14. Persons with Mental Illness / Laura Weiss Roberts, Kathryn
Fraser and Diana Quinn / [et al.]. 15. Religion and Pastoral
Care / B. Gail Joralemon and David Hartenberger. 16. What Does
the Future Hold for Managed Care? / Mary Anderlik — App.
Managed Care Information Resources / Kirsten R. Shelstad.
SUMMARY “Managed Care takes a hard, balanced look at the realities of
managed health care, assembling the key decision makers in the
Albuquerque, New Mexico, health care area - from the CEO of the
hospital system to the director of managed care, a home health
care specialist, a lawyer, chaplains, and professors at the
medical school - to examine the critical issues facing managed
care today.”–BOOK JACKET.
NOTES Includes bibliographical references.
SUBJECT Managed care plans (Medical care)
Managed care plans (Medical care) — Economic aspects.
Managed care plans (Medical care) — Moral and ethical aspects.
OTHER AUTH Bennahum, David A., 1936-
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
1 > DU MELB 362.104258 Ben/Mcf AVAILABLE

This is impressive. If I can do this within my own school library, I won’t have to worry about finding the phone number and bothering the staff during their business hours. I like how convenient and easy it is to use Telnet. When I came unstuck, there were clear instructions on screen and most tasks could be achieved with single keystrokes - it’s fast!

I tried to find the same title on Amazon. It took quite a bit longer and will require more than $20 to get my hands on a copy. A pretty picture, but who judges a book by the cover. The detail from the library’s Telnet output has much more details and further cross-referencing research options.

Is Telnet going out of fashion? Clearly not for me, but how does one find out about more Telnet servers?

Coming up next: FTP - sounds easy, I’ve been doing that for … about 13 years!