On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 02:13:04PM +0300, Juhani Pirttilahti wrote: > I've got to run PCBoard under dosemu, works like a charm in local mode. > There is still a problem. Lets say I want to run 5 instances of dosemu + pcboard, I > need then > a telnet server, which maintains connections to these 5 instances.
Sure. standard telnet/ssh will do this. Unless you are trying to multiplex all these connections onto one listening telnet port. Then you will have to write your own "hub" program to direct the user to the right node. To me, it makes more sense to have each listening node associated with a particular listening IP port (:2323, :2324, :2325, :2326 ... ). Then it is simple. Create a sh script which starts dosemu and the BBS in the "already connected" mode, like if a frontend mailer such as FrontDoor was used to pass control to the BBS. Then have that script file executed as a login script when a user telnets in. You can use exactly the same virtual com port for each node, then you only need one port configured as virtual (COM1). Every time you run a new dosemu, COM1 is corresponding to the telnet connection for _that_ dosemu. So you can have e.g. 16 dosemus running at once for all your 16 nodes, all configured to run on COM1, and each COM1 a particular node is using, corresponds to the telnet connection which initiated the DOS session that the BBS instance runs in. If that is confusing, just ask for clarification. I use this method to run DOS doors through Synchronet (for Unix). The idea is the same. One thing that may confuse you is that there is no modem emulator (like vmodem for OS/2), only a COM/FOSSIL emulator, which takes console/terminal I/O on the outside and redirects it to appear as if it was received on a COM port (or from FOSSIL driver) on the inside of the DOS box. The virtual COM port on the DOS box corresponds to no physical COM port, only to the I/O from the outside. It also has nothing in common with any other virtual COM ports in any other concurrently running DOS boxes. This is why you can just set COM1 for every PCBoard node and it will work fine if executed as if the COM port has a modem on it that is already connected. What you _cannot_ do is run PCBoard and have it "answer the phone". That would require a modem emulator which we do not have (and don't really need). -- Ryan Underwood, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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