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- NCSA Telnet Digest Wednesday, 4 Nov 1987 Volume 1 : Issue 7
-
- Today's Topics:
- Blinking session
- Blinking Session
- How to handle nameserving of nicknames
- Keyboard remapping and Multi-Finder
-
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-
- From: John Matzka <johnm@jacobs.cs.orst.edu>
- Date: Fri, 30 Oct 87 12:53:32 pst
- Subject: Blinking session
-
- The blinking session doesn't annoy me much but as was pointed out, it isn't
- really necessary since the menu bar will flash when sound is turned off.
- Perhaps this "feature" could be made an option perhaps this option could be
- set in the config.tel file.
-
- John Matzka
- johnm@jacobs.cs.orst.edu
-
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- From: gaige@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Gaige Paulsen)
- Date: Sat, 31 Oct 87 16:05:21 CST
- Subject: Blinking Session
-
-
- The reason that the session blinks when the bell sounds is to identify which
- session the bell is coming from. I am quite aware of the blinking menu bar
- effect, but have been known to have trouble determining which window to look
- in when there was a beep caused by external events (especially difficult with
- 4+ windows). Perhaps we should look into just blinking the session if it
- is not the currently active session. Therefore, only beeps from a session in
- the background would blink at you.
-
-
- What do you think?
-
-
- Gaige
-
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-
- From: gaige@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Gaige Paulsen)
- Date: Sun, 1 Nov 87 13:40:00 CST
- Subject: Keyboard remapping and Multi-Finder
-
-
- I have been told that people are having problems with the keyboard remapping
- screwing up other applications under Multi-Finder. Although I agree that
- it is a problem and am working on finding a nice solution, there is an interim
- solution to the problem. Provided with the new system file is a new keyboard
- 'cdev' this should allow you to change the keyboard back and forth as
- necessary.
-
- Gaige B. Paulsen
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications
-
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-
- From: timk@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Tim Krauskopf)
- Date: Wed, 4 Nov 87 17:41:52 CST
- Subject: How to handle nameserving of nicknames
-
-
- I would like to get some input on the use of nicknames with NCSA Telnet:
-
- Is the presence of the CNAME field in BIND a nickname facility that we can
- use instead of burdening our local config files with all of the nicknames
- that each user wants?
-
- Here are the choices that I see:
-
- choice 1:
- add default domain endings to non-qualified names or not. i.e. we append
- "ncsa.uiuc.edu" to the end of every short name that is typed by the user
- before that name is looked up with domain name lookup.
-
- If you do add them, then people in this building must type fully qualified
- names or some other strange scheme when they want to get out of the building.
- Or maintain those names in local host files -- same as old problem.
-
- choice 2:
- since we aren't going to add the default domain ending, where shall we
- maintain the list of nicknames which includes names from inside our domain
- and "nic" or "andrew" which are outside our domain?
- Shall we put them in our individual config files or are we going to maintain
- a CNAME cache on our BIND servers? I know which one is easier.
-
- We are trying to bring up a CNAME server that takes care of our nicknames.
- These names would never be exported, but requests at our local servers would
- be honored for nicknames. Another way to do it is support yellow pages,
- but no thank you.
-
- Any other points of view?
-
- Tim Krauskopf
- timk@ncsa.uiuc.edu
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