[Info-vax] Reverse telnet to a terminal emulator?

[Bob Gezelter]

On Jul 18, 9:02 pm, Snowshoe <n... at spam.please> wrote:
> Is there any such thing as VTxxx-compatible terminal server software
> that runs on a PC that, instead of actively connecting to a host via
> telnet, is "passive", it waits until something connects to it?  Once a
> host connects to it, it acts like a regular VTxxx terminal.  My idea is
> for VMS to reverse-telnet to it. (TELNET> CREATE_SESSION 10.9.8.7 23 100
> creates TNA100: on host at IP address 10.9.8.7 port 23) This is to
> replace a hardwired terminal that doesn't log in, but an application
> currently allocates it and uses it for part of its operator interface.
>
> If the answer is "no", an alternative is for someone to use ordinary
> terminal server SW to telnet into the VMS host and run a do-nothing
> program that goes into a permanent LEF state, and VMS finds its TNAx
> device and writes to it, but this is one step I'd rather not have the
> operators do.

Snowshow,

I do not have the time to check, but I would suggest taking a look at
the Windows version of  Kermit.

- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com