On 2017 Nov 09 23:05:40, you wrote to Richard Menedetter:

 rm>> As already mentioned in another area:
 rm>> https://github.com/geneb/tcpser/blob/master/README

 rm>> I do not think that you need to recompile the kernel for it.

 JH> I have looked at tcpser, even built it, and been in touch with the author
 JH> when I failed to get it working (as I described). It would seem the author
 JH> is under the impression that it is not a "Modem + COM port emulator", but
 JH> more along the lines of a "Remote Modem Emulator", in other words,
 JH> something that allows us/me/you to talk to a modem by distance (or
"virtual
 JH> port", which may or may not be local/remote).

sounds to me like he/they consider it like one of thos old-school modem banks
that you talk to over TCPIP...

my first response was to ask why go this way... detect the base environment and
forego the telnet stuff for a direct (maybe aka raw) connection and do FTN raw
instead of enveloped in telnet or vmodem /unless/ the remote indicates that it
can do no other... shoveling binkp into the mix should be no worse then adding
another protocol engine... the main thing i see is to detect the environment
and go native where possible... $deity knows that i go $native every chance i
get and i prefer that those i interact with do as well O:) ;) ;) ;)

with that said, i have noticed, for years, that there are some BBSes that deal
with ports like they are simply files... back in the day, many of them would
redirect the comX port to CTTY for shell access... no FOSSIL or other similar
com specific details needed... a lot of ""extraneous"" stuff can be bypassed by
going native but that ""extraneous"" stuff may still be desired so as to
support older connection methods (eg: FTN over telnet) while still being able
to adopt newer methods (eg: FTN over some secure protocol)...

i now you/we need to start at some beginning and the old POTS stuff works...
the key is to then detect and branch away from that when necessary and embrace
the new network oriented connection methods... use something that already
exists (eg: raw) or develop a new one...

)\/(ark

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