----- Original Message -----
From: "John R. Hogerhuis" <[email protected]>
To: "Model 100 Discussion"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2015 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: [M100] Telnet Client
On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Kurt McCullum
<[email protected]> wrote:
The topic of being able to put a Model-T online
comes up every now and then.
I've been toying with the idea of adding a
Telnet client to mComm. My
thoughts were to add the ability to switch to
Telnet mode in mComm. When a
control key is pressed the TELCOM screen will
clear and then ask for a URL
to connect to. Then, mComm would connect to the
remote Telnet server and
send all the data to the Model-T, doing the all
important buffering so that
the Model-T serial buffer isn't over run before
it can send an XOFF.
On the other end of the wire would need to be a
Telnet server that is geared
towards our little machines. To my knowledge,
there are none. One would need
to be setup. The end result would be a Telnet
BBS system geared towards the
40x8 screen (or 40x16). Or a Linux system with
the proper termcap.
While this is certainly doable, would it be
useful?
Kurt
The 40x8 screen is a problem, but also the lack
of mobility. People
want to be able to get online anywhere.
I did make a lot of progress on my Android SSH
bridge a while back,
but haven't had time lately.
But don't let that stop you. I'm sure people
will enjoy a new feature
in Telnet feature in mComm.
Consider doing the some ANSI escape filtering
and UTF-8 to Model T
character set mapping in mComm. Even if you can
pan/scan the with a 40
column screen it looks really bad unless you do
some filtering. I do
it HTERM, for universality/high speed but your
program is more
designed for use with TELCOM.
-- John.
One option would be to use the BBS as a remote
gateway which would have the intelligence and
power for the formatting, remapping etc. and also
supply clients to do 'useful' stuff on the net,
leaving the local bridge relatively simple and
transparent; sort of like logging into Linux with
HTERM, only over the net.
m
