[log in to unmask] ("SURITA, ROBERTO" ) wrote:
 
>I would like to know if anyone has developed or knows
>of a way that I  could give our dial-up users to our HP
>957 a bulletin board type  interface.  The way I would
>envision this to work is the user would  dial our
>system and when they got connected they would be
>prompted  for a logon id and then a password.  I would
>like to try and avoid  a visible Hello logon sequence.
>I know I could do this via a MS92  or a Reflection
>script (I think) but would also like to avoid that.  If
>anyone has any suggestions or knows who I might contact
>I would  appreciate it.
>
>Thanks,
>Bob Surita   [log in to unmask]  FIS Manger
>MPS
>
 
We wrote something for our customers to dialin to our hp3k that
could be used for exactly what you desire. We haven't used it
for 5 years and its written in spl. If you want I would be
happy to make it available. Here's the gist of how it works:
 
1) It runs on a dialup port (started using startsess command)
and waits for someone to connect.
 
2) when a connection is sensed it prompts them for pwd for
validation and then gives them a menu of choices.
 
3) they choose an option and then the option is performed. We
used xpress from robelle as a bulletin board/mail system and
special access to this was setup.
 
4) We configured the port/modem so that it didn't hang up when
the user disconnected, so the program kept running. all
activity was logged to the console.
 
Kinda crude - but it worked for us from about 1985 until 1990
when we converted to another setup.
 
-- Duane Percox (Quintessential School Systems)
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