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- From: erick@demorgan.uwaterloo.ca (Erick Engelke)
- Subject: Re: LWP4.1 and XPC
- Message-ID: <C1KnLI.MFw@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
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- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <dan.77.728187280@ortta.umn.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 16:10:29 GMT
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- > dan@ortta.umn.edu (Daniel C. Cummings) writes:
- >Has anyone using LWP 4.1 with the XPC program noticed that the server PC (
- >the host with XPC loaded) must be at a DOS prompt for XPC to respond to an
- >incoming Telnet session? Is there a way around this? It would be nice to
- >be able to telnet to your office PC, start up a process (say a program
- >compile, or a large database sort), break the connection (Control-x, q) and
- >then be able to telnet in later to check on it's progress *while the program
- >is still running on the host PC*. Or as another example, have an endless
- >loop batch file running on the host PC to always force the incoming telnet
- >session to a particular application. But alas, when this is done, the
- >host PC acts like it's busy and won't respond.....
- >
- >Part of what I'm after could also be achieved if it was possible to tell
- >XPC to do some command upon a successful connection (like run a batch file)
- >or upon a broken connection (say...reboot the PC).....any Novellers out
- >there with any suggestions??
-
- The third party product, Everywhere Access allows you to retelnet in,
- or reboot on closure, or prevent future logins, and it has a user API
- in case you want to execute things upon openning or closing sessions.
- It works with LWP.
-
- Contact info@snsi.com for details.
-
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- Erick Engelke WATTCP Architect
- erick@development.uwaterloo.ca TCP/IP was easy but i still can't work VI
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