005 - Starting and Ending an Interactive CYBIS Session
CYBIS (R2) Operation and Usage (Virtual Book)
This Virtual Book contains chapters organized in a suggested order but you are free to select whatever topics address your needs best.
Abstract
These instructions cover the use of PTerm7 provided by Retro1.Org. Although the functionality is similar to that of PTerm6 provided by cyber1.org, it has different capabilities and the user interface will vary.
Starting PTerm
To start interactive CYBIS sessions launch the CYBIS/PLATO terminal emulation (Pterm). It will prompt you for the connection parameters:
Select cyberserv.org (Ascii) and click the Edit button. You will be presented with a display similar to the following.
Switch to the Connection tab.
Set the Default Host value to localhost.
Set the Default Host to localhost, or use the IP Address 127.0.0.1.
Return to the Profiles tab and at the Profile textbox, enter localhost8005 as the profile name and click the Save As button.
You may now use your new entry to connect to localhost8005.
You may explore the contents of the other tabs at your leisure.
PLATO Keys
The PLATO system uses a collection of special keys, mapped to the modern keyboard in the following way:
The actual PLATO Keyset is shown here for reference:
Before proceeding, familiarize yourself with the keyboard mappings and their related shortcuts.
Logging-in to CYBIS
The CYBIS login screen prompts you for a valid user name, group and password:
As delivered from VCampus - the signon page bears the CYBIS name and a chiseled style display.
A choice was made to revert the signon page to the older PLATO/CERL style
which makes integration of the holiday special signon pages much easier.
The following administrator type users are already setup in Group s in account system with user names:
adminadmin1admin2admin3
Additionally there are also the following author type users available in Group author with user names:
authorauthor1author2author3
The author type users are all under account cybdeva.
As distributed, all of these users have the same password passme. During setup, the installer is offered the opportunity to install a different systems programmer group.
Tip
The user with the greatest system control is admin which owns and has access to everything on this CYBIS system. These records must be protected carefully.
To login, enter one of these User names and then follow the prompts to enter the associated Group name and the password.
To see the list of keyboard mappings for all PLATO/CYBIS special keys, click on Help on the menu bar and then select Pterm keyboard.
For an administrator type account (Group s) you will be presented with the following System Mode screen:
For an author type account (Groups other s) you will be presented with the following Author Mode screen:
In either mode you can run most CYBIS lessons. System Mode has many additional privileges required to perform certain system maintenance and operator tasks (e.g. CYBIS shutdown or creation of new accounts).
Logging-out of CYBIS
To end a CYBIS terminal session press SHIFT-STOP to end the currently running CYBIS application if
necessary and then press SHIFT-STOP again to logout from the current session:
If you press NEXT on this screen it will take you back to the original CYBIS login screen.
Waiting for more than a few minutes will cause NAM to terminate the session. In this case simply close the Pterm window and start a new instance of it.