Scripted Telnet Destinations

John D Boggs (mailto:jdboggs@PIPER.HAMLINE.EDU)
Tue, 5 Mar 1996 07:45:47 -0600

Message-Id: <199603051349.HAA01505@library.wustl.edu>
Date:         Tue, 5 Mar 1996 07:45:47 -0600
From: John D Boggs <mailto:jdboggs@PIPER.HAMLINE.EDU>
Subject:      Scripted Telnet Destinations
To: Multiple recipients of list WEBCAT-L <mailto:WEBCAT-L@WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU>

I can think of two possibilities for platform-independent solutions:

1) I've seen web-browsers pop-up a window with directions on how to log into the remote system. So you wouldn't have a scripted login, but everyone would be told what procedure to follow to get logged in.

2) Make each link to other catalogs actually be a link to a dummy account on your local Unix machine (if you have one), and have the dummy account's shell be some sort of a chat script that will log the person into the remote catalog.

Neither is perfect, of course, but both seem feasible.

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