On Sat, 29 Nov 2014, John Kelly wrote to Mark Lewis:

hey john! it has been a while :)

-> as it has been on OS/2, use SIO with vmodem providing the virtual 
-> modem port for the software to talk to... i still use SIO 1.60D

 JK> I tried the SIO vmodem and it didn't work on warp4, an 
 JK> incompatible dll problem I recall ... or did you mean you're only 
 JK> using SIO with serial ports, and not vmodem?

no, i use SIO and Vmodem with both real serial ports and virtual ports...
with both DOS and native OS/2 programs...

 JK> I have an inbound telnet solution for PCBoard. It's a reverse 
 JK> telnet proxy, written in PERL, runs on linux. Works for me cause I 
 JK> use a linux box for my router/firewall.

many firewalls these days are *nix solutions... the one i run here on my
perimeters is, too :)

 JK> The PCboard nodes connect to the linux proxy with serial ports and 
 JK> null modem cables, if you have a multiport serial card on the 
 JK> linux box, or via ethernet and a telnet fossil I wrote. The fossil 
 JK> needs Novell TCP/IP from Client32, so your node requires that to 
 JK> run the fossil.  Can be either DOS or Windows 3.1.  I have a 
 JK> Windows 3.1 test box set up with 2 nodes working, I think it could 
 JK> do 4.

wow... that's pretty deep...

 JK> It's all free, but a lot of work to get working. People enjoy 
 JK> talking about the good old days and PCBoard, but few are willing 
 JK> to invest the time and effort to make it happen.

true... in many cases, folks have been spolied by the install and go
stuff... few really understand how it all works these days :/

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