From: "William Coleman" <weecol AT essex DOT ac DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.programming,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
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Subject: Re: can i et hold of a copy of a telnet program's source code
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 11:25:08 -0800
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Im really looking for source code so i can use it to set up a tcp connection
between two processes (ie using windows with 2 dosboxes)
Victor Wagner wrote in message <76tsds$2r1$1 AT wagner DOT wagner DOT home>...
>William Coleman (weecol AT essex DOT ac DOT uk) wrote:
>: I have djgpp and i want to get a copy of telnet source code if i can.
>: can anyone supply me?
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>Problem is that telnet program for DOS (djgpp) and telnet program for
>UNIX should have quite different functionality.
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>Telnet for UNIX need to handle telnet protocol only, becouse it already
>runs on real terminal or terminal emulator. Most complicated thing in
>telnet for DOS is terminal emulator.
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>There is telnet for dos, which comes as example with Waterloo TCP
>library (which is, I think, used in djgpp), so dig a bit deeper.
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>Of course, any linux distribution comes with sources of its telnet
>client, but it is Unix telnet, which just sends current value of TERM
>environment variable to remote host and allows terminal it started from
>to handle anything. (it can be useful for DOS if you have ANSI.SYS
>installed).
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>Victor Wagner @ home       =         vitus AT wagner DOT rinet DOT ru