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- From: guy@library.calpoly.edu (Guy Martin)
- Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
- Subject: Gopher *client* over inetd
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.062306.1361@rat.csc.calpoly.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 06:23:06 GMT
- Organization: Polycat/Systems Support - Kennedy Library, Cal Poly SLO
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- Ok, time to ask all you gopher experts out in netland... I have been banging
- my head against the wall long enough....
-
- We are seriously considering replacing our current library remote interface
- software with a Gopher server. I have gotten both the gopher server and
- gopher client to compile on our Sequent S27. However, we would like to be
- able to run the Gopher *client* (not the server) over inetd, so that when
- users initiate a 'telnet' session from our campus net, they connect directly
- to the Gopher client, which in turn connects to our Gopher server... Now,
- I realize that we could hack it up so that we created an account called
- 'gopher' or some such and then just had remote users 'login' to use the
- remote Gopher via that mechanism, but we have just gotten our technophobic
- users used to the idea of typing "connect library" from the network prompt,
- then having a menu pop up to greet them... Adding the extra step of having
- them login would probably throw 90% of them for a loop... #:-)
-
- So, what I am getting at is: Has anyone successfully run the Gopher client
- over inetd? My problem is that, althougth it runs, of course all input is
- in raw mode, so arrow keys are useless, and since the client uses curses,
- things come out in strange places. I have tried writing several different
- C programs to allocate pty's and such, but have had no success at all...
- Is anyone out there in GopherLand running their client in this manner, and if
- you are, can you send me hints, source code, anything.. #:-)... Thanks for
- listening....
-
- -Guy
-
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- Guy Martin -- Polycat/Systems Support | Internet: guy@library.calpoly.edu
- Robert E. Kennedy Library, Cal Poly SLO | OR : guy@calpoly.edu
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