Re: Three major questions.

[Ryan Underwood <nemesis-lists@icequake.net>]

Hi,

On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 07:40:47PM +0000, administrator wrote:
> > >3) To be able to turn a comport into a telnet port. This would be perfect
> > >for BBS software if I could turn the com ports into telnet ports. For
> > >example. If I connect to my box on port (for example) 5000, Dosemu would
> > >redirect that as com1, port 5001 would be com2, etc. Any chance of this?
> >
> > This would be more useful if the virtual com ports could have
> > a switch to turn on the virtual fossil driver/interface as well.
> 
> Why not just run fossil.com in your autoexec.bat?
> 
> That is a valid way to do it.
> But it is dependent on the "virtual serial interface" being able to
> successfully "fake out" the fossil driver. I am guessing it is easier
> to present a fossil interface directly to the app.

Well, I was meaning the DOSEMU built in fossil interface.  You could use
another fossil driver (like X00 or BNU) that lays on top of the serial
port, but the DOSEMU driver should be more compatible under more
circumstances since it is dependent on the DOSEMU internal
fossil implementation.  In my experience, this has been the case, though
there are some poorly programmed fossil applications that depend on
specific non-features of X00/BNU and the like.

-- 
Ryan Underwood, <nemesis at icequake.net>, icq=10317253