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

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In article <j02l2e$2ha$1 at speranza.aioe.org>, Snowshoe <no at spam.please> writes:
>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 

There are some here, myself included, would argue that there is no 
PeeCee software that acts like a regulat VT terminal.


>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.

Sounds like a good job for a pseudo-terminal application.  You connect
your PeeCee with the not-ready-for-prime-time VT terminal emulation to
its PTD$READ side and your application talks to its PTD device.  It's
a very simple thing to program.

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