From Polytechnic to University

 

The change from City Polytechnic to City University brought about numerous changes to computer systems. The Computer Centre changed two main areas, the network and the user interface.

A) Network Changes

• username@cphkvx.cphk.hk

  became username@cityu.edu.hk on VAX VMS

• username@cpccux0.cphk.hk

  becameusername@cpccux0.cityu.edu.hk on Unix Solaris 2.3

• username@cpccspc.cphk.hk

  became username@cpccspc.cityu.edu.hk on Unix SunOS 4.1.3

The campus-wide domain name server has also changed from cphk.hk to cityu.edu.hk. This means that if a user does not provide a domain name when looking up the name server on any host, cityu.edu.hk will automatically be added to the user-supplied hostname. All off-campus E-Mail message headers now show City University of Hong Kong as the Organisation Name.

These changes are shown below in a partial sample of an E-Mail transmission header.

Return-path: Received: from cityu.edu.hk by cityu.edu.hk (PMDF V4.2-14 #8147) id <01HKOCVW0ZRK8WYAC7 @cityu.edu.hk>; Thu, 15 Dec 1994 14:50:08 +0800 Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1994 14:50:08 +0800 From: "Tai Man Chan, CC, CityU"<CCTMCHAN@cityu.edu.hk> Subject: test To: cctmchan@cityu.edu.hk Message-id:<01HKOCVW2VAA8WYAC7@cityu.edu.hk> Organization: City University of Hong Kong X-VMS-To:IN%"cctmchan@cityu.edu.hk" MIME-version:1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7 BIT

As City University is on the Internet, network messages enable us to effectively publicise our University status worldwide. We sent over sixty messages regarding the name and E-Mail address changes on the Internet through education-related bulletin boards, Listserv, and Newsgroups.

B) User-interface Changes

Old Name	Current Name
Polytechnic Library Information Systems	University Library Information Systems
Poly Yellow Pages	University Yellow Pages
PolyData	CityData
PolyFax	CityFax

System message prompts and report headings were also modified. Static messages in the Bulletin Board System in PolyLink were edited, as was information in our Gopher and World Wide Web information servers. To reflect the name change, our integrated campus network CPNET has changed to CTNET. Accordingly, we also modified and recompiled Network Menu displays and options. In addition to the MSDOS environment, we needed to change Windows applications such as network Windows' icon descriptions. As a support centre, the CC develops and produces on-line manual pages for different systems and publishes reference material. These include systems and software user guides, information leaflets and booklets, service request forms, and so on. These will continue to be edited as we update material.

Computing Services Centre City University of Hong Kong ccnetcom@cityu.edu.hk