July 13, 1993                                                    TFIRST(1)



   NAME
     tfirst - telnet firstsearch  access program

   SYNOPSIS
     tfirst [ 1]

     The optional numeric argument turns on debugging so that the automagic
     login sequence can be observed.

   DESCRIPTION

     _T_f_i_r_s_t provides users access to the OCLC FIRSTSEARCH service.

     _T_f_i_r_s_t connects to the OCLC service  and establishes communications .

     Once the connection is opened, the OCLC SiteSearch interface to FIR-
     STSEARCH is started and control is passed to the user.

     When the user ends their FirstSearch session (with the bye command),
     _t_f_i_r_s_t exits gracefully.

   DIAGNOSTICS

   AUTHORS

     William D. Cattey of MIT Information Systems (wdc@mit.edu),  Tom Owens
     of MIT Library Systems (owens@mit.edu)
     _T_f_i_r_s_t is based on the uwrl driver from Willow.  Willow is a project of
     Computing and Communications and the Libraries of the University of
     Washington, principally authored by Matt Freedman
     (mattf@cac.washington.edu).
























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