Three major questions.
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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.
I envision it would work something like this....
dosemu --make_virtual_port com=5 fossil=off uart=16550 pipe=myfifo
this way if you wanted to use an external fossil driver, you could but hopefully the implementation would be so good, it would not be necessary.
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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.
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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.
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Ryan Underwood, <nemesis at icequake.net>, icq=10317253