Very Computer

I am running 5.0.2 and have a problem with an application (Maxwell)
that assigns session options using the tty value. The old user base
was all serial. I am changing over to TCP/IP and as such I
can not control the ttyp? connection numbers.

Maxwell uses the serial ttyr? value to search a sequence list to assign
a TASK ID, which could have unique terminal colors and printer assign to
the connected serial terminal device. I can execute Maxwell passing a
TASK ID to use, instead of it doing a lookup. I planned to use a simple
grep on a text file with "hostname TID" table

I played around with using the following script:

        # get tty to X
        X=tty | awk -F"/" '{print $3}'
        # get hostname from /etcwtmpx using tty
        last -n 1 -W /etc/wtmpx -h -t $X | awk '{print $4}'

The $ values may be off, the real script is at work...

The "last" command returned the hostname appended with the day
of the week. There was not a space between the hostname and the next
field value.

Is there a better way, a simple tool or command I don't know of
that will return the telnetd connected hostname or IP address
is a variable.

David A. Roger

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It has been several months ago when I installed the FacetWin product
and I don't remember any specific issues with "task ID."

We found that it does'nt make much difference what ttyp is assigned
to a user as all the networked users are running FacetWin terminal
emulation from Windows 95 pc and all are setup to be identical: Using
the scoansi term emulation mode and selecting ansi for terminal type
upon login.

The attached printers are setup in Windows 95 and then shared to the
windows network as betty_hp, donna_hp etc.  We ran fct_rlpadmin
to defin UNIX printers fct_betty_hp and fct_donna_hp and then ran
Maxwell's install (setup?) un /usr/lib/BASIC and setup printers
fct_betty_hp and fct_donna_hp as spooled printers as the following:

.... .... .... (maxwell stuff) lp -dfct_betty_hp -s -onobanner
.... .... .... ............... lp -dfct_donna_hp -s -onobanner

I had to modify the interface scripts to pipe the output throug a
filter we created named ffstrip to strip the trailing formfeed
from Maxwell jobs.  I also remember having specific problems with
attached laser printers, the dot-matrix worked with less problems.

If you want more details, let me know and I will get permision from
the client to review the system and get specific configuration
information.

                                      Steve Fabac
                                       S.M. Fabac & Associates
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