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Chapter 3 Terminals on mutli-user systems
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Connecting via ‘fixed ttys’
IOLAN+ has the ability to create a ‘fixed tty’ under Unix. This is helpful for older or secure
Unix applications that require a fixed location for each terminal. Consult Chapter 9 Other
devices setup.
Multisessions on terminals/PCs
IOLAN+ is capable of supporting multiple sessions. This allows the user to connect to all four
*** FREE *** sessions with different hosts and move between them using the ^] hot key. You
can also key through the screens by setting the session key (that is, If set to ^A you would
bounce through the screens with a ^A1, ^A2, ^A3, ^A4.). If you are using a terminal that
supports video pages such as the Wyse 60, the screens will be refreshed if you set the video
pages field on the Port Menu to the number of pages supported by your terminal (for Wyse
60 = 3).
The TERM field The TERM field in the Port Setup Menu can be used to pass the terminal
type information to the host. The terminal type field is local to the IOLAN+ but will be passed
to the host.
The TERM field can override the information being sent to the host about the type of
terminal. This allows you to customise information being passed to the host. For example, a
user could encode the physical location into this field (that is, tty16) and then extract that at
the host end to determine which port the user has logged in on (that is, port 16).
Gateway Tables
When the host and IOLAN+ are connected via a gateway router, a connection is not possible
until the gateway table has been updated with the IP address of the local gateway machine.
See Gateway Menu on page 149 in Chapter 10 The menu interface.