Tony Langdon wrote in a message to David Calafrancesco:
 TL> It's 06 Mar 97  20:56:38,
 TL> We'll return to David Calafrancesco and Tony Langdon's
 TL> discussion of OS/2 --> Linux
 DC> I may have come in late here... but what is wrong with using vmodem to
 DC> allow inbound telnet to the system? If you are trying to use text apps
 DC> with a straight telnet then the app has to be written to use STDIN and
 DC> STDOUT. Most text apps (for speed reasons) don't do this. Most UNIX
 DC> ports to OS2 however do this inately as that is a standard UNIX thing.
 TL> You'd still need something which will behave analogous to
 TL> DOORWAY working behind Vmodem.  Other than that, nothing.
 TL> :-)
 TL> Vmodem just provides the interface between a comms app and
 TL> telnet.  you still nees a suitable application (modem based)
 TL> behind it... 
Actually before I found Vmodem I had an alternative telnetd available that 
gave me full account and password logging and gave my friends their own 
telnet accounts. I had batch files for each of them and if they left the 
telnet session shut down for safety purposes. I also had the BBS running in 
local mode for the user BBS. It worked OK enough, though occasionally someone 
with real access would trigger a text mode app that used a non-standard file 
handle for IO and they would be locked out. Editors were the biggest culprits 
so we installed elvis for one of the users so he could edit and maintain text 
config files for the BBS remotely. Elvis being a port from Unix worked 
flawlessly through a telnet session ;)
Dave Calafrancesco, Team OS/2
dave@drakkar.mhv.net
... They got the library at Alexandria, they're not getting mine! 
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