Colin Why do you want to redirect to telnet ?
Just to check understanding, before offering a solution, are you trying to allow a user with a PC (of any description) to telnet into the DG box ? (transparently or otherwise) We'll set aside that the DG box only has serial connection and cannot be directly telnetted to and also the question of the emulation for now. Jim >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 08/10/01, 10:24:47, Colin McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding [scottish] How daft is this?: > Hi all, > Regarding the plan for World domination....(Echelon lights up)... > Where I work we have an application which only runs on a Data General > terminal (which hasn't been manufactured for 20 years). No, it doesn't use > curses. No, we can't live without it. AFAICS there is no open source > terminal emulation package which supports this type of terminal. There are > a couple of commercial packages which claim to provide the emulation in a > web page but both require IIS and one of them uses a big activex object > anyway :( > I've not had any good experiences with Wine. > The other day I came across an orphaned PD DOS program which seems to do > the job :)). It even seems to run under dosemu :))) > ...but it uses serial ports, and the source code is not included. :( > ....so.....dosemu allows you to specify which (device) file the program > uses to emulate the hardware serial port. So....how difficult would it be > (for me) to catch that i/o and redirect it through a (telnet) socket? > I thot about using a FIFO in place of the terminal device....but can that > discriminate the polarity of bidirectional communication (if one process > writes to the FIFO which gets to read the data)? Running two copies of > minicom on a fifo suggests that its a bit more complicated. Anybody any ideas? > cheers, > Colin > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk > http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
