11 Aug
2014
11 Aug
'14
4 p.m.
On Aug 11, 2014, at 12:30 PM, geneb <geneb at deltasoft.com> wrote:
Yes. I used tcpser when I put the Apple II BBS,
"Age of Reason" online a number of years ago. I discovered that if you used a
normal telnet client, it acted like you hhaadd llooccaall eecchoo oonn,, when posting
messages or doing any kind of input. I added a tiny bit of code that would kick out the
IAC WILLDO ECHO sequence on connection to prevent that. I also extended one of the command
line switches to allow you to specify the IP address you wanted it to bind to. The host
computer I was running tcpser on had multiple ethernet cards in it.
I have a BBS online at http://bbs.fozztexx.com right now (which also supports dialup). If
you telnet to the port tcpser is listening on (6502), it doesn't just echo everything,
it leaves telnet in line mode so you have to push enter to select a menu item. To
compensate I run a special telnet server on port 9600 that will then connect to tcpser
using socat.
I think the other problem I had with tcpser is that it's not able to act as a telnet
client. I couldn't use it to connect to any real telnet servers, only ones that were
doing raw sockets.
Is your patch available somewhere?
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