Re: terminal without telnet

---In [email protected], <gtaylor@...> wrote :

>> Now I wish to use PDOS/386, running my simple "pdpser" application that 
>> writes to COM1, to be used as the ANSI terminal. But it failed to connect 
>> to Hercules, because no-one is doing the telnet negotiation. So I wish to 
>> switch off the telnet requirement and effectively have PDOS/390 driving 
>> a serial port that has an attached EBCDIC ANSI terminal.

> What about a utility to listen to the serial port and gateway to a 
> telnet server? "socat" and some clients for remote serial ports come to 
> mind. Point Qemu at that logical serial port that has it's data sent to 
> a remote telnet server.

That's a good idea. I didn't think of that. But I'm
surprised that Hercules doesn't already have
some sort of "raw tcp/ip" option so that I don't
need a separate utility.

BFN. Paul.