Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!kddlab!ccut!titcca!sragwa!srava!ariza
From: ariza@srava.sra.JUNET (Michiharu Ariza)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Serial Port Emulation over Appletalk?
Message-ID: <1854@srava.sra.JUNET>
Date: 28 Nov 88 14:49:55 GMT
References: <3442@emory.uucp>
Reply-To: ariza@srava.junet (Michiharu Ariza)
Organization: Software Research Associates, Inc., Japan
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In article <3442@emory.uucp> km@emory.uucp (Ken Mandelberg) writes:
>Is there a driver around that will convince programs that want to use
>the serial port to use an  established telnet connection instead?

I think this is within the reach of what I am trying to do now.
I am writing a telnet driver in order to redirect my serial-based
terminal emulator to FastPath. This driver handles read and write calls to
communicate with a telnet session and recognizes several special cscodes
to assign an IP address and open a telnet connection.  The driver can
handle only one telnet session at a time but ftp is implemented in it.

Currently the terminal emulator is aware that he is talking with the
telnet driver but I don't think it's so difficult to make it
look same as the serial driver, and then only I have to do is to
write a cdev to open a connection and replace the slot in the unit table
with the telnet driver.

Anyway the driver code is not yet stable enough and I am not sure when
I can work on the scheme explained above...

	Michiharu Ariza
	Software Research Associates, Inc., Tokyo
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