[Coco] Tutorial on Telnet/inetd on Coco3 DW4 (is there one?)

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 12 October 2012 05:45:39 Aaron Wolfe did opine:

> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Bob Devries <devries.bob at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > I guess what we need is a realiable way to add a file to an existing
> > .DSK or .VHD file. Not sure if wimgtool.exe will fill the bill, or
> > what you'd use on Linux.
> 
> If you'd like to do this directly from the CoCo, the commands 'dw
> server list' and 'dw server dir' are an easy way.
> 
> To bring a file from your windows machine into the CoCo's disk:
> 
> dw s l c:\coco\somefile.b09 > /dd/work/somefile.b09
> 
> Or, maybe you want to bring a file from a web site or ftp site into
> the CoCo's disk:
> 
> dw s l ftp://www.rtsi.com/OS9/OS9_6X09/ezgen.lzh > /dd/work/ezgen.lzh
> 
> A sort of poor man's FTP client in OS9:
> 
> {N2|03}/DD:dw s d ftp://www.rtsi.com/OS9/OS9_6X09
> Directory of ftp://www.rtsi.com/OS9/OS9_6X09
> 
> .bash_logout                  .bash_profile
> .bashrc                       .kde
> APPS                          ARCHIVERS
> COM                           CoCo_Projects.zip
> EMULATORS                     GAMES
> GLENSIDE                      GRAPHICS
> Glenside                      HARDWARE
> LANGUAGES                     PROG
> REFERENCE                     SOUNDUTILS
> SYSMODS                       TELECOM
> TXT                           UMUSE
> UTILITIES                     coco
> coco_archive.iso              coco_archive_gofd_readme.txt
> cocoos9.zip                   dagorpatch.zip
> ezgen.lzh                     fsr.lzh
> gofd.zip                      oscom10.zip
> vCoCo.cpt.Hqx.sit             xt-hd.lzh
> xt-rom.lzh
> {N2|03}/DD:
> 
> 
> So 'dw s l' will bring in pretty much anything local or remote, dump
> it to stdout where you can redirect into a local file on the coco, and
> 'dw s d' will list a directory of most anything that can provide a
> directory.
> 
> To go the other way, I'd suggest using httpd on OS9.  Add a line like:
> 
> 80,runb,httpd

and I am obviously waaaayyyyy out of date, where is this 'httpd'?, and what 
modules need to be merged to runb for it to work as planned?

> to your inetd.conf, restart inetd and visit http://127.0.0.1/dd with a
> web browser on your server.
> you can browse the entire OS9 filesystem and download files with the
> browser.
> 
> -Aaron
> 
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