Subj : RE: tcpser & dosemu!
To   : alterego
From : Blue White
Date : Fri May 15 2020 19:39:47

 al>   Re: RE: tcpser
 al>   By: Blue White to alterego on Wed May 13 2020 06:54 pm

 BW> And tty0tty sets up the two ends of the string for tcpser and
 BW> dosemu to send/listen on, right?

 al> Right.

 al> When you load it you'll get 4 (strings) pairs of devices:
 al> /dev/tnt0 /dev/tnt1
 al> /dev/tnt2 /dev/tnt3
 al> ...
 al> /dev/tnt6 /dev/tnt7

 al> You have something connect to the "odd" end, and something else
 al> connect to the "even" end and whatever is written to 1 end will
 al> appear on the other. ...????

OK so that is just the bomb!  <grin>  I got tty0tty and tcpser installed
in a virtualbox devuan ascii machine.  Also installed dosemu.  The only
issue I am having now is that the virtual machine does not have xwindows
on it.  So dosemu runs but, unlike on my host, if I fire up a dos
program all hades breaks loose as far as the display settings go.  I
need to figure out how to fix that, probably in my dosemu.conf.

But, the good news is that I pointed COM2 to tnt1, with tcpser listening
on tnt0 -- I was able to telnet into the old DOS bbs and also telnet out
to my synchronet system using the DOS dialer.  Of course, as I said
before, the display of what I got back when I did the telnet out was all
wrong... it was like the EOL was not working on any of the DOS program
screens.  I think somehow I need to figure out how to tell dosemu to use
80x24.



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