[comp.dcom.lans] looking for ways to telnet to PCs.

ssw@cica.cica.indiana.edu (Steve Wallace) (09/18/89)

I'm looking for something that has the same functionality as
carbon copy or PC anywhere, but using IP.  I seem to remember
someone mentioning a homebrew product like this.  Our application
doesn't use direct screen writes or other nasty stuff.  I have
thought about using a COM: via TCP simulator and using DOS's ctty
function.  Any ideas?

The applications were interested in supporting is Novell based
mail.  We're experimenting with a modified version of ka9q, using
it as a SMTP gateway for all our campus-connected Novell servers. 
If anyone's interested, I can send them a copy of the changes
made to ka9q.


Steven Wallace
Indiana University
ssw@lavanix.bacs.indiana.edu

nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (09/19/89)

In article <148@cica.cica.indiana.edu> ssw@cica.cica.indiana.edu (Steve Wallace) writes:

   I'm looking for something that has the same functionality as
   carbon copy or PC anywhere, but using IP.  I seem to remember
   someone mentioning a homebrew product like this.

Probably me.  I hacked at KA9Q to make the telnet server send its input to
the keyboard buffer, and read the screen for its output.  It works moderately
well, to the point that I can telnet to my PC at work, and accomplish useful
things.  There are problems, though.  I have no solution for generating
PC keycodes, the output is always VT-100, and I always send a whole line at
a time, even if the cursor is on the last non-blank char of the line and
only the last character changes.

Other than that, if you can spare 64K, it works.

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