DOSEMU via inetd (for BBS games without the BBS)
Hello.
Quoted 2 lines · Ryan Underwood
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).
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They could be run against vmodem (in traditional BBS mode)
Yes, and documenting the ability to run them remotely would be interesting.
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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.
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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?
Hi,
Quoted 4 lines · Stas Sergeev
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They could be run against vmodem (in traditional BBS mode)
Yes, and documenting the ability to run them remotely would be interesting.
Take a look at http://forge.icequake.net/syncmods for an example of how to run them via my Synchronet patch. There is also a tarball with scripts at the bottom to launch them without any special support from the BBS.
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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.
No, not at all.
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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.
Oh, so your idea here, is to run a BBS software that answers the modem like the traditional style, and be able to telnet to the dosemu session, and dosemu "answers" the incoming telnet like it would answer a ring on the telephone?
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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?
I did that, but then I also had confusion from people because they couldn't remember the login, etc. telnetd seems to have an option to use something else as a telnet login program (besides telnetlogin), but I didn't seem to get it to work. I guess running it like you say is better because the dosemu session is not running as root though. (I su -c the door, but most people would probably forget to do that)
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