🚀 go-pugleaf

  This is again in responce to my own message.  

!!!!   yes I was wrong!  The DTC telnet card is not Expensive.  Sorry I
could swear that when we received ours 2 years ago, bought three years
ago it was deadly expensive...   Perhapse that was my impression at the 
time.  But 3,000 is not expensive.

Still that leaves me with several problems, and questions. 

1) This still does not fix the Nailed down problem.  With a terminal server
I could at least tell my frontend to telnet to a port on the term server and 
that would in turn use a nailed down port on the DTC...  Pain but would work.

Question: Can you specify a port of connect with the Telnet card in the DTC?

2)  Still wish I could run a script on the DTC.  That way say I want one port
to drop to the : prompt it would.  Another port I might setup to stop ask the
user which city are they in, or their first name, then ask userid or login
and account, or in our case if not certain users like CIRCulation, RESRve,
or REFerence just set the account for them since their is only one database
account for the general public.   This way it can be made to pretend to be
another system...   

3)  Have a termcap or translator type setup available on DTC so if one
of our patron connects with a VT100 or other semi common terminal 
configuration the DTC could translate basic keys.  In our case DEL to BS.
This will do nothing for BLOCK mode, (which they don't need to see.  Just me)

4)  Can you progrmaticly contact the DTC and tellnet out of the 3000?  From
what I have been told this is not posible...  It would be nice to be able to
access the TELNET card and via a menu or (in the database software) other 
interface have the software extablish a connection to another machine without
having the user type in the ####.####.####.#### busness.  If my user wants to 
connect to CARL.ORG.??? I do not want  him to enter it.  

#4 includes a problem...  IF user can telnet out to his choice of address 
this is a serious security violation.  We have some jerks that think breaking
in and reasing files is fun.   We had a case last summer where a student was
breaking out of a package (at the point it would allow you to telnet where
you wanted to) and hopping on west coast computers.  He would look around until
he found one that had a account he could manage to break into.  Bad passwd
or other dumb mistake.  He then would freeup as much disk space for them.  
Wish I could erase people like that..  PUrge (jerk_)  sigh!

   More later since I am awake and can pretend i can programm and manage 
a machine.  Gets me paid.  

          FNRJH@Aurora.Alaska.Edu