mdchaney@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (M Darrin Chaney) (03/09/91)
I'm not sure how normal this problem is, but here goes. We just upgraded to Ingres 6.3/03, under VMS. Our main use is a large database program that everybody in the organization has access to through a restricted account. They all have the same login directory, etc. When they log in, our program is fired up, and when they leave that program, they are logged out. We have it set up so that they can write screen files (with Ctrl-G) and they are automatically mailed to the person on another machine. The main point is, though, we have always controlled the environment. With the advent of v6.3, the online report viewer allows the user to write the report to a file, or print it. Our nice, secure environment went right out the window, since users could now create a file, and give it any name that they wanted (they could easily gain command line access). To get around this, I've written the report viewer, with paging abilities and online Help, in TPU. It's about 900 lines of code, and it handles keymap files (Ingres_Keys logical). It doesn't handle termcaps, so it only works with VT100's and emulators/compatibles (at our setup, we have keymap files for Mac-Telnet and Mac-240, as well as PC-Telnet and PC-Procomm, even NeXT). If anyone's interested in a copy of the program/map files, just send me email, and I'll be glad to send you a copy, and show you how to set it up. Note that this only applies to VMS machines. Darrin -- mdchaney@iubacs mdchaney@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu mdchaney@rose.ucs.indiana.edu