Hey Roy!

Apr 11 04:06 04, Roy J. Tellason wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 RJT> The thing is,  it was do-able.  If you were running the OS/2 
 RJT> version,  and you had installed SIO,  that package had what it 
 RJT> called a "vmodem" (virtual modem?) function that would make it 
 RJT> appear that there were a whole mess of modems connected to the 
 RJT> machine,  and max would be happy with that.

Yep.  Also, from a Linux user's percpective, telnet in a regular Linux
console works as well and is a sight to behold.  Maximus never looked so
good as it does in a Linux console.  What that brings to the table is that
no extra client programs are required on a Linux box.  Windows can't do
that.  :-)

 RJT> Maybe that sort of a shim is one way to go?

I don't know.  It isn't an option here.  This is pure Linux and tcpip
networking here.  If it can't work with this setup it is highly unlikely. 
Besides it is too much work for just one node that may not go in that
direction anyhow.  Personally I'd much rather be a user then a sysop.

 RJT> Not having a clue as to how much of this 
 RJT> stuff works I'm not real sure how easy it'd be.

From my readings of the source much needs to be changed or dropped
completely.  Not an easy task.

Life is good,
Maurice

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