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- From: d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se (Mikael Wahlgren)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
- Subject: Re: Telnet
- Message-ID: <13499@chalmers.se>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 22:56:15 GMT
- References: <GHENNIGA.92Aug17143059@ampere.ampere> <13456@chalmers.se> <1992Aug18.171035.18256@ans.net>
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- Organization: Chalmers University of Technology
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- In article <1992Aug18.171035.18256@ans.net> db3l@ans.net (David Bolen) writes:
-
- >Yes - the IBM Telnet server works by establishing itself as a VIO monitor (an
- >OS/2 capability) for the full-screen session. That means that it gets to
- >intercept all calls made to the session at the VIO level and translate them
- >into terminal sequences.
-
- One reader kindly allowed me to telnet into his OS/2 machine (hope I
- didn't crash it, although it certainly looked like it). I don't know
- if the communications link I got was terribly slow (it is a long way to
- travel), but everything was just terrible slow, which maybe was as well,
- as this allowed me to see in detail how the telnet daemon worked.
-
- I think I was connected in about 10 minutes, and it didn't even finish
- the initial DIR command I issued. But by looking at the DIR command
- executing, the whole screen was updated every time, even if it only
- scrolled one row. It seems that they have some optimizing to do.
-
- OK, so the impression I have got from the answers are that the telnet
- daemon really can execute any (almost) text session. So let me change
- the question. Would there be any interest in a solution that allows you
- to execute any (almost) text _DOS_ application from the telnet daemon?
-
- Mikael Wahlgren
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