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- Simeon 4.1.x Normal/Advanced Session Management Notes
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- Last modified: Nov 4, 1997
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- The "Mobile" Simeon user (definitions)
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- 1) users need for mail access from multiple machines (permanent PC's)
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- 2) multiple users need for mail access from the same machine. This is
- being coined the "kiosk" concept, and is the central theme in the move
- to ACAP.
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- 3) the same user and machine, but, a need for access from different
- sites in addition to the office. This will mainly be the laptop user
- or a notebook user; they may even have a docking machine.
-
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- Advanced Session Management
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- This functionality was targeted at the truly "mobile" user in
- every respect. The user will typically already have at least two option
- stores: one local(usually a default.tcl) and one remote(imsp). When a
- user has at least one imsp store and one local (tcl) store, they will
- have a "configuration specification" or "initialization" file in their
- working directory (representative of their machines native OS), called:
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- 1) Windows and Window NT and Windows 95
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- "simeon.ini"
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- 2) Macintosh68k and Macintosh PPC
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- "Options location"
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- 3) Motif
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- "simeonrc"
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- This file has exactly the _same_ information and structure on all
- platforms.
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- Example of a "normal" (2 specifications needed: 1 remote IMSP option
- store and 1 local TCL) option store:
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- ***
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- [REMOTE] default
- host=<your_imsp_server>
- port=406
- type=imsp
- [LOCAL]
- file=C:\<some_directory_path>\default.tcl
- type=tcl
-
- ***
-
- This file gets read in, _if_ it exists, after the site defaults file
- (sysdflt.tcl and sysdflt2.tcl) read has been completed on startup.
-
- This file is basically the "flight director" for Simeon, where a
- user's options reside. This file can be modified and distributed at any
- time by a sysadmin (or knowledgable user).
-
- It is information from this file that gets presented in the Simeon
- advanced "Session Manager" dialog. You'll notice that many new fields
- are in the "advanced" configuration specification file:
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- ***Modification of the Configuration Specification file***
-
- Unmodified
- ----------
- [REMOTE] default
- host=monet
- port=406
- type=imsp
-
- [LOCAL]
- file=C:\SIMEON16\BIN\default.tcl
- type=tcl
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- Modified
- --------
- [REMOTE]
- name=monet_406_imsp
- host=monet
- port=406
- online_default=1
- offline_default=0
- type=imsp
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- [LOCAL]
- name=C:\SIMEON16\BIN\default.tcl
- file=C:\SIMEON16\BIN\default.tcl
- online_default=0
- offline_default=0
- type=tcl
- name=My new Simeon configuration
- file=C:\SIMEON16\BIN\randy.tcl
- online_default=0
- offline_default=0
- type=tcl
-
- ***end***
-
- Notice:
- - The 3 option sets: the original two options specifications - 1 imsp
- and 1 default.tcl, plus a 3rd option set "randy.tcl".
-
- - The " default" tag, beside [REMOTE], with the "online_default=1"
- when it wrote out the advanced specification file.
-
- - Each option set has been given a relevant "friendly name".
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- Field definitions
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- name - a "friendly" name that gets entered via the advanced "Save as"
- dialog. The default name to something meaningful at first, such as
- the complete path to the default.tcl(personal option) file. If you travel
- for example, you may have a local option file for each of your favorite
- cities which may be named something meaningful - such as "My Boston
- Configuration". This would work well if you have a distinct IMAP servers
- that you connect to (i.e. maildrops) as you travel around the world.
-
- host - as before - typical user (name or ip)
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- port - as before - typical user (mostly 406)
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- online_default - specifies whether a user wants to be "remote" (imsp)
- or "local" (tcl) when starting up in "Online" (connected) mode.
-
- offline_default - specifies to use this config as the "default" when
- starting up in Offline mode.
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- file - as before - typical user (complete path plus tcl filename)
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- type - as before - typical user (imsp or tcl)
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- You may have as many configuration specification record sets as desired
- and it is not necessary to have a remote (IMSP) option store specified
- (i.e. you may only have multiple local (TCL) option files).
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- How to start Simeon in Advanced Session Management mode?
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- All platforms
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- The option line:
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- option -session General.Mobile "TRUE"
-
- is used in the sysdflt.tcl file to trigger the
- "Session Manager" dialog at Simeon startup.
-
- Windows and Motif
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- The command line args can be used:
-
- -c p
-
- You can _only_ add/modify the advanced specification fields (name,
- online_default, offline_default) via the "Save as..." dialog, and the
- Advanced "Load..." dialog is only triggered if the above option
- or command args were used to start Simeon.
-
- On Windows and Motif
- ********************
-
- If the:
-
- option -session General.Mobile "TRUE"
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- is found in the sysdflt.tcl, mask over any relevant
- command line arguments on the command line, such as:
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- simeon.exe -r <your_imsp_server>
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- The result is that you see the Session Manager dialog instead of
- going to the IMSP login dialog(as specified in the Unmodified
- Configuration Specification file (above example)).
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- *** END of SSN_MGMT.TXT notes ***
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