Hello, Anyone doing PalmOS network programming will definitely find our "tcptty" tool to be extremely useful.
If you have done some network dev with POSE you already know the evils of "Redirect Netlib calls to host TCP/IP". Frankly, the feature is not really suited to developing real netapps on the Palm. What most developers have been doing is using PPP to link to their dev box either through RAS server or pppd. As of POSE 3.2 people have the option to map serial to a TCP/IP socket. Using this option, and tcptty, people can automatically establish a real ppp connection to a pppd server over TCP. The beauty of this is that an arbitrary number of POSEs can establish a true ppp connection to a remote server. This allows you to create a virtual LAN of all your POSEs. What tcptty does is map the TCP socket to a pseudo-terminal that pppd can understand. The utility is free, released under a BSD style license with full source available. It is available at the download section of our website: http://www.coopcomp.com We welcome all feedback and suggestions.. cheers, -mark Cooperative Computers, Inc. http://www.coopcomp.com -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/
