On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Colin McKinnon wrote: > At 09:38 08/10/01 +0000, Jim Jarvie wrote: > >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. > > Hi Jim, > > I want to provide a DataGeneral 210 or 460 terminal emulation on Linux. I > can get Vt52, Vt100 (xterm), Vt220, Vt320, Ansi and Wyse 30/60 emulation no > problem but the application has the terminal sequences hard coded in. The > application runs on a remote box which is connected to by various means, > most of which involve IP (tcp/ip, ppp). Currently most of the users access > the application using a commercial terminal emulator program which runs on > MS-Windows and connects via telnet session. I'm trying to find something > similar for Linux. > > I have a DOS terminal emulator which only runs via serial connection, and > am trying to work out if it is feasible to use this to connect; > > Linux [x]dosemu Terminal emulator > | | | > | | dosemu serial port emulator > | \ | > | V > | myttyfile > | | > | V > | mysocketadaptor > | | > | V > | telnet socket > \ | > | > Application server V > | telnetd > | | > | V > | application > \ > > > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 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 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Hello
there used to be several good Ms-dos based terminal emulators which ran various DG emulations. These date from some ten years ago. I will try to remember the names of these and see if anyone still has a copy floating about somewhere. Regards -- Ian Robertson -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
