Hi all, Regarding the plan for World domination....(Echelon lights up)...
Where I work we have an application which only runs on a Data General terminal (which hasn't been manufactured for 20 years). No, it doesn't use curses. No, we can't live without it. AFAICS there is no open source terminal emulation package which supports this type of terminal. There are a couple of commercial packages which claim to provide the emulation in a web page but both require IIS and one of them uses a big activex object anyway :( I've not had any good experiences with Wine. The other day I came across an orphaned PD DOS program which seems to do the job :)). It even seems to run under dosemu :))) ...but it uses serial ports, and the source code is not included. :( ....so.....dosemu allows you to specify which (device) file the program uses to emulate the hardware serial port. So....how difficult would it be (for me) to catch that i/o and redirect it through a (telnet) socket? I thot about using a FIFO in place of the terminal device....but can that discriminate the polarity of bidirectional communication (if one process writes to the FIFO which gets to read the data)? Running two copies of minicom on a fifo suggests that its a bit more complicated. Anybody any ideas? cheers, Colin -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
