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Library Automation--Comments & Questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Public-Access Computer Systems For)
Fri Jun 12 14:46:32 1992
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1992 13:38:54 CDT
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5 Messages, 126 Lines
1) Dow Jones News Retrieval Password Security
2) Media Booking Systems
3) DIALOGLINK
4) LCD Projection Devices
5) VT100 Terminal Emulation
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From: gloria thompson <GTHOMPSO@UA1VM>
Subject: Dow Jones News Retrieval Password Security
I have a question about the password protection on a Dow Jones workstation.
It seems that everytime we think we have successfully disabled anyone from
getting into the files by setting all files read-only and removing edlin and
attrib.exe files from dos that we later discover that patrons can find their
way back into the files and change the password. The communication software
that is being used is SmartcomIII and I don't think that the password can be
hidden using Smartcomm. Does anyone have any ideas as to how to solve this
problem? Input would be appreciated.
Gloria Thompson
University of Alabama
Systems Office
(205) 348-8672
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From: Flora Grabowska <FGRABOWSKA@mtroyal.ab.ca>
Subject: Can Anyone Recommend a Media Booking System?
Any good Media Booking Systems out there?
Mount Royal College library is looking for a booking system for the
Library Media Division to book software, hardware and viewing
rooms.
Our integrated library system, MultiLis does not have such a module
nor are we holding our breath.
We are interested in anything that works, particularly on a VAX
platform, or PC_based. Please include how you came by it
(developed in-house, recommended by, etc.)
We will gladly summarize for the list. Thank you in advance for
your help.
Pat Taylor, Systems Librarian
Mount Royal College Library
Calgary, Alberta. Canada
Voice: 403 240 6126
Fax: 403 240 6698
e-mail:Netmail::"ptaylor@mtroyal.ab.ca"
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From: "Ed Spodick, HKUST Library, x6743" <LBSPODIC@USTHK.BITNET>
Subject: Re: Library Automation--Comments & Questions
Edward Wladas asks
>Now that DIALOG is available over the Internet, does DIALOGLINK
>work with this connection so that we can log our sessions and
>use the other capabilities of DIALOGLINK?
Here in Hong Kong, we have been told by the local Dialog contact that DLINK
does not yet support internet addresses. I cannot recall whether this had
to do with TCP/IP support issues, or with physical hardware addressing,
or both. The rep. felt that a news version, with full Internet support,
would be available in late 92, or early 93. We have no firm information
that this information is correct or mistaken. I would love to hear
from someone who has a copy which works, or has made some back-room
modifications (if that is permitted). Our current communications costs
are generally much higher than our session costs.
Edward Spodick, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
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From: (John Edson Ludwig) <jludwig@hp.uwsuper.edu>
Subject: Re: Library Automation--Comments & Questions
There is an excellent review of color lcd projection devices published by
Steve Griffin and B. Drew Robison from the The Institute for Academic
Technology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The address
is as follows:
The Institute for Academic Technology
P.O. Box 12017
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2017
(919) 560-5031
Fax: (919) 560-5047
E-mail: jonp.iat@mhs.unc.edu
John Ludwig jludwig@uwsuper.edu
Technical Services Phone - (715) 394-8184
Jim Dan Hill Library Fax - (715) 394-8462
University of Wisconsin- Superior
Superior, WI 54880
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From: "Ellen L. Sleeter" <sleeter@DPW.COM>
Subject: Re: VT100 Terminal Emulation
You will encounter the problem of capturing all the cursor positioning
escape sequences any time the host to which you connect is running a
true full screen application. VT100 is the terminal emulation coin-of-the-
realm for input to any IBM mainframe-type communications controller
(handles the terminal traffic for the mainframe). VT100 is often
converted into IBM 3270 emulation.
The opposite of full screen operations is line-by-line --- e.g., the
scrolling screen type of dialog with a computer system. If the
host to which you connect is line-by-line (e.g., RLIN in dial-up
mode, contrasted with RLIN on a dedicated line), you will be
able to capture the session without any problem.
Hope I've been clear. The VT100 emulation is not the problem. The
problem is the host to which you connect, and whether their
communications controller converts you from line-by-line mode ("TTY")
to full screen mode. An easy example: most NOTIS and INNOVACQ
installations are full screen-based. "DUMB" is essentially
equivalent to TTY mode --- if you can *alternatively* use TTY mode,
then do. But, as you've noticed, not all remote systems that
do VT100-to-IBM3270 conversions have a TTY option as well.
---- Ellen Sleeter
Information Systems Librarian
Davis Polk & Wardwell
450 Lexington Avenue
212-450-5854; fax: 212-450-5522
Internet: sleeter@dpw.com
