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Re: telnetd for GNO?

From	Stephen Heumann <stephen.heumann@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.apple2.programmer
Subject	Re: telnetd for GNO?
Date	2016-01-04 18:45 -0600
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On 2016-01-03 22:00:43 +0000, stlhood said:

> Has anyone ever tried to port telnetd to GNO/ME?
> 
> The only telnet server I'm aware of for the Apple II is the one that 
> comes with Contiki. Very cool, but a telnet server for GNO seems like 
> it would enable all sorts of interesting uses. For example, one could 
> theoretically write scripts or shell apps that support multiple 
> simultaneous users --like a true, natively-hosted telnet-based 
> multi-user BBS.
> 
> The BSD/GNO/Marinetti tangle is beyond my own coding skills, otherwise 
> I'd give this a try myself...

I did some work a while ago on porting FreeBSD's telnetd to GNO, but I 
didn't get it finished.  I think it's fundamentally possible, and I did 
get as far as verifying that basic server functionality (accept a 
connection and then send data back and forth) works on GNO with 
MariGNOtti.  It would just take some more work to get it finished up.  
I may get back to it at some point, although likely not particularly 
soon.  (If someone else was interested in finishing it, I could 
probably provide what I have.)

The old GS/TCP webpage also mentions telnetd as one of the programs 
developed for it.  I don't have a copy of that, and I don't know to 
what extent it really worked, but if it did work and could be made 
available that could also be an option.  If it was using the GNO 
sockets interface, it would likely work with Marinetti/MariGNOtti as 
well as GS/TCP.

I agree that a telnet server for GNO would be something nice to have.  
For one thing, it would be useful in development workflows.  More 
generally, I think it would be cool to see more people using GNO and 
developing stuff for it.  It's really a very capable environment that 
shows what the GS can do, and by providing a bunch of Unix-like APIs 
and functionality, it makes it feasible to port and write things that 
otherwise might be prohibitively difficult to get working on the IIgs.

-- 
Stephen Heumann

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telnetd for GNO? stlhood <stlhood@gmail.com> - 2016-01-03 14:00 -0800
  Re: telnetd for GNO? D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2016-01-04 16:27 +0000
    Re: telnetd for GNO? stlhood <stlhood@gmail.com> - 2016-01-04 10:50 -0800
      Re: telnetd for GNO? D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2016-01-04 18:57 +0000
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                Re: telnetd for GNO? andrew.roughan@writeme.com - 2016-01-09 00:58 -0800
                Re: telnetd for GNO? D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2016-01-09 21:30 +0000
  Re: telnetd for GNO? Stephen Heumann <stephen.heumann@gmail.com> - 2016-01-04 18:45 -0600
    Re: telnetd for GNO? stlhood <stlhood@gmail.com> - 2016-01-04 20:40 -0800
      Re: telnetd for GNO? Stephen Heumann <stephen.heumann@gmail.com> - 2016-01-10 12:30 -0600
        Re: telnetd for GNO? stlhood <stlhood@gmail.com> - 2016-01-10 21:28 -0800
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                Re: telnetd for GNO? D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2016-01-12 18:56 +0000
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