loverso@Xylogics.COM (John Robert LoVerso) (11/17/89)
[Followups to comp.sys.encore] In a comp.protocols.tcp-ip article, <4587@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>, Ken Mandelberg asks about the `rtelnet' program Xylogics provides with the Annex Terminal Server host-tools software distribution. The basic answer is that the rtelnet distributed with next release should include changes that resolve all his points, and then some. Several bugs (including one descended from BSD telnetd) have been fixed, and a few new, useful features have been added. rtelnet, combined with the "kernel-assisted telnetd" changes (see my article in comp.unix.wizards), makes for a nice way to make Annex ports appear "local" w/o performance penalties. As a sidebar (this is a pet peeve), I wish that vendors `porting' the Berkeley networking code to SystemV platforms would do so in a way that wouldn't require basic socket-using code to be turned into spaghetti to compile and/or work. This includes "#include"s. -- John Robert LoVerso Xylogics, Inc. 617/272-8140 loverso@Xylogics.COM Annex Terminal Server Development Group "All opinions expressed herein are mine and in no way reflect those opinions of Xylogics, blah, blah, ..."