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- Subject: Re: Limited telnet program?
- Date: 6 NOV 92 13:01:34 EST
- Organization: MIT PLASMA FUSION CENTER
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- In a previous article, jamesd@techbook.com (James Deibele) wrote:
- >I would like to set up a limited telnet program for people to use.
- >Specifically, I'd like to provide local librarians a way of telneting to
- >selected online library catalogs via a menu. If the telnet to that site
- >fails, I would want the telnet program to exit with an error level,
- >which I could then catch with a shell or program. I don't want people
- >who use this account to be able to exit to a shell from within telnet,
- >and I don't want them to be able to telnet elsewhere.
- >
-
- Mark Resmer at Sonoma State University has written both a VMS
- DCL command procedure and some sort of shell script for accessing
- libraries and databases on the Internet. Both are available via
- anonymous ftp in the /pub directory on sonoma.edu. You might want
- to take a look these before you roll your own...
-
- Regards,
-
- John
-
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