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From: jesse@gumby.Altos.COM (Jesse Chisholm AAC-RjesseD)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Telnet into a PC
Message-ID: <4933@gumby.Altos.COM>
Date: 19 Jun 91 02:15:37 GMT
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Organization: Altos Computer Systems, San Jose, CA
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bxw@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au (Brad Willcott) writes:
| ricko@bach.ee.uts.EDU.AU (Rick Jelliffe) writes:
| 
| >I run a network of suns for Electrical Engineering here, and we
| >would like to telnet to PCs around on different floors. The programs
| >on the PCs are simple character-based ones only. 
| 
| >Does anyone know of PD sources for this? (NOTE: whenever I've asked
| >anyone this it has been difficult to convince them that I am NOT 
| >asking to telnet OUT of a PC and into a multi-user system. I wnt to
| >connect to the PC.)
| 
| What you are after is NOT possible on PCs under MS-DOS.  It might become
| possible under OS/2 though.  It would require porting the telnet daemon
| source from Unix.  Not an easy task!

On PCs under MS-DOS the closest you can probably get is to set up one
machine as a telnet/ftp server, then each workstation could telnet/ftp to
the server machine and transfer files or whatever.  The problem is that
under MS-DOS the station can either be a server, or it can be a client.
It can't be both.  I have seen FTP servers on MS-DOS and SMTP servers
but I don't know of anyone who has written a telnet server.  Sorry.

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