[Coco] Telnet for Coco

[Tim Fadden]

Give this BBS Server a try.   I go it going with my coco os9 system.

http://home.ica.net/~leifb/bbs/

Can't upload/download binary files, but ascii works fine.

Tim




Joel Ewy wrote:

> Mike Pepe wrote:

>> Do you mean, to allow an incoming connection via telnet to a coco?

>>

>> Requires a NIC and TCP stack, neither of which exist for the CoCo (yet)

>>

>>   

>

> Actually, there was a port of KA9Q/NOS to CoCo OS-9.  On other 

> platforms this software had a TCP/IP stack, built into the same binary 

> with various client programs (FTP, Telnet, simple mail client).  On 

> the CoCo, because of the 64K address space, it had a TCP/IP-FTP 

> binary, a TCP/IP-Telnet binary, etc.  I don't remember for certain, 

> but there might have been simple servers as well as clients.  The 

> TCP/IP does SLIP.

>

> The CoCo version has a reputation for being difficult to get working.  

> I once tried to use it to do SLIP/FTP between my TC-9 Tomcat and a 

> '386 SLC 40 running SLS Linux (10 1.44M floppy disk images downloaded 

> from Delphi at 14.4kbps).  My recollection is that I got it to work, 

> but it was agonizingly, unusably slow.  Much slower than sz/rz on the 

> same machines.  I hope I don't reignite an argument by pointing out 

> that the Rockwell 65c52 (a dual 6551 chip) on the Tomcat, plus the 

> SLIP overhead, may have been to blame.

>

> JCE

>> However there are ways to accomplish this. One would be use something

>> like a linux box as a gateway. Another would be to use something that

>> has a network connection on one side and serial ports on the other. A

>> Digi CM32 comes to mind as something that could do this.

>>

>>  

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>>> Subject: [Coco] Telnet for Coco

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>>> Has there been any telnet software for a Coco BBS?

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