RS> I am a BBS/door guru, but have very little experience with Java. In
 RS> general, I think Java has not had a lot of traction as a platform for
 RS> writing BBS doors. If you can find a way to construct a socket object
 RS> and specify the underlying descriptor/handle that should be used (rather
 RS> than opening a new socket), then that should get you started. I'm not
 RS> sure "ServerSocket" is the right thing as that *sounds* like a listening
 RS> socket which is not really what you want. The socket is already
 RS> connected (no bind/listen/accept required).

You may be right the ServerSocket API may not be what I need. I had tried
to open an OutputStream usign a number of different methods but it just
locked the BBS user up completely. 

Should the handle be the only thing I would need or do I need to specify a
baud rate somewhere?

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