DP> I don't know if this will help, but there is a windows interpreter called
 DP> frotz that is suppose to play those old infocom games.  I suspect that
 DP> the next step would be to use something like netfoss to redirect
 DP> inputoutput for the BBS.

Thanks anyway, got it to work. Wasn't me, it was the latest official release
of DOSBox that had a broken socket inheritance. Once I updated to an SVN
release, everything's peachy  =)

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