Re: DOSEMU via inetd (for BBS games without the BBS)

[Stas Sergeev <stssppnn@yahoo.com>]

Hello.

Ryan Underwood wrote:
> Actually, since the BBS doors are run in the local mode, no modemu is
> necessary.
I don't know where modemu is necessary
at all:) It is a funny program, but I
can't think about any real use for it
(except for testing dosemu's recent
ability to use the pty's).

> They could be run against vmodem (in traditional BBS mode)
Yes, and documenting the ability to run
them remotely would be interesting.

> Do you think it would be useful to generate some documentation for
> running a local-mode-only
local-mode-only? That doesn't sound like
it will use the serial port by whatever
means.
But there are many possibilities. For
example, the origins of that discussion
are coming from a question about telnetting
to a different COM ports of an already
running dosemu. This is not possible to
acomplish with vmodem at all, and that is
not documented.

> Do you have a better idea to get telnetd to execute the DOSEMU wrapper
> besides hacking telnetd or telnetlogin?
Surely. I always have an ideas:)
Seriously though, what just comes in a
mind first: how about adding a special
user with the login shell being a dosemu
wrapper?