Subj : Re: Home Lab
To   : Paulie420
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu May 14 2020 07:49:00

-=> Paulie420 wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 PF> I've wanted a DOS box for some time now, but DOSBOX in a full screen does
 PF> enough to make me not need physical hardware. Being able to emulate all of
 PF> the hardware of the time, including an NE2000 card - then being able to
 PF> emulate a serial port with a TCP port to use old COMM apps with telnet
 PF> BBSes is pretty neat.

 Pa> I don't know how to do that, as I would love to use my copy of
 Pa> Terminate 5... or heck, even BBS software from back in the day. Can you
 Pa> elaborate on that process??

There are lots of different builds of DOSBOX - look in the dosbox 
configuration file under serial ports and see if there's a "modem" option 
for the comm ports.

I define my COMM1 port as "modem listenport:23", and when I send hayes 
commands with the hostname instead of a phone number, it connects to that 
host via port 23 (telnet)

For BBS software, I think you need to run NETFOSSIL or something like that 
to do full port redirection.


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