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From: rja.carnegie@excite.com (Robert Carnegie)
Subject: Re: Termlite
Date: 19 Dec 2001 03:20:56 -0800
References: <tKET7.1693$GW5.175905@NewsReader> <3C1F5346.2E155876@nospam.fr> 

Andre Georgel <andre.georgel@nospam.fr> wrote in message news:<3C1F5346.2E155876@nospam.fr>...
> Chris Tate a �crit :
> > 
> > Guys,
> > 
> > Anyone know if its possible to get termlite to read a different
> > config file from a shortcut?  The reason i ask is i have several
> > customers who connect to different machines and would like the
> > backgrounds changing to different colours depending on the login.
> > (they use vt100, so i think i have to do it at the emulator level
> > rather than setcolor)
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Chris
> 
> Yes you can give in the windows shortcut the hostname on which youwill
> connect.
> 
> after temlite.exe add -host hostname
> 
> You can create a shortcut of termlite for each host.

But Chris wants them to be different colours as well (or his
customers do).  TermLite 1.0.7 online help documents only
-host, -port, and -proto (telnet | tcp/ip | vtp | netbios)
as command line options.  Apparenly you can't name an alternative
saved configuration file.

However, help also says that TermLite merely needs all its files
in the same Windows directory, which implies that you could create
a new directory containing shortcuts to _all_ of the "real"
TermLite files and a real, different configuration file, as
often as necessary.

Does this also cover us for location of window on screen?
That's how I keep multiple hosts straight in my own mind.

Other projects include using a batch file to swap around separate
versions of the configuration file and _then_ launch TermLite -
or would Chris get away with setting up TermLite as VT320
although evidently the application only supports VT100,
i.e. is there enough backward compatibility for that to work
while also allowing TermLite to accept colour change commands
from the host?

if [ $TERM = vt320 ]
then
    setcolor lurid clashing
    export TERM=vt100
fi

- since telnet clients of course can report the name of their
emulation standard to the server at the start of the session - 
although some (TinyTERM 4.20.1306) allow cheating.
 

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