Wes Garland wrote in a message to Bo Simonsen:

 BS> Then you are finish with the serial io module, would it then be a 
 BS> big problem to write a VMODEM program?

 WG> Yup, that would be an *enormous* pain in the rear. Probably a
 WG> couple of weeks' time, I'm not doing it. :)  You need to either
 WG> write a STREAMS module, or a pseudo-tty-using-program which will
 WG> remove/recreate its own block-character device (for multiple
 WG> connections bound to the "same" serial port").  
 WG> Why in God's name would you want to do that??

Well,  I for one would like it if there was some way that somebody could
log in to a local instance of max from another machine on the LAN here, 
for one example.  At this point I'm not sure of any other way to do that. 
Pointers as to how welcomed!  :-)

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