winqvt

[Melissa Silvestre]

I included web4lib in my Reply in case anyone else is interested in this answer.

I assume that by "return to the icon" you mean return to the Windows
Program Manager.

At the U of MO, we bought a 4-campus site license for winqvt/net, and
got with it a mini version called winqvt/term, which is just a stand-alone
telnet (works without the entire console running).
I have no idea what the site license costs.

By the way, we chose to go this way instead of Ewan because we also
use it for locally-mounted Ovid databases, and found that Ewan couldn't
handle the full-screen ansi characters Ovid needs. Qvt/term does just fine.

I strongly recommend you contact the qvt/net software authors and
ask about a license for just the mini qvtterm product. It comes in both
16-bit and 32-bit (for Windows 95) versions.

To answer your question most directly, you can set things up as:
1. run the console minimized in your Startup group so users never see it
 (or in the progman.ini run= or load= lines).
2. Make your icon out of the "tnstart.exe" program that comes with qvt/net
The tnstart program is an almost-standalone telnet in that it can be a direct
icon to a certain site, and shuts down gracefully. But it does require the
console running also, although the users need never see that. 

Hope this helps. Contact me directly for further information about how
we handle these things.

At 09:30 AM 5/15/96 -0700, you wrote:
>Hello
>
>We are looking at the possibility to give our users access to our library
>catalogue (INNOPAC) via PCs running a winqvt telnet session.
>
>I know its possible to set win qvt up so that if you click on the
>winqvt icon
>you can automatically set up a telnet session and be logged on.
>
>However, when you disconnect from that session, we want to be able to go
>back to the winqvt icon on the windows desktop and not to the winqvt console
>(from which you must do a File/exit command. )
>
>We have other aplications running on the PC eg access to our cdrom network so
>our users need to be returned back to the windows desktop (to select the cdrom
>they want.)
>
>Is there any way you can configure winqvt so that when you terminate a
>terminal telnet session you end up back at the winqvt icon ???
>
>hope someone can help.
>
>Regards Elvio
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