From: dmonger@yabbs
To: all@yabbs
Subject: yabbs over modem
Date: Thu Jul 21 13:40:41 1994
on a related note ... i had a neat idea (IMO) last night.  Rather than trying
to dialout to a unix machine where i have tcp/ip, i thought i could probably
get the yabbs client to listen and talk on /dev/com0 rather than over a socket.

My theory was to user kermit, dial into my annex and telnet to the yabbs port
on phred.  Then suspend kermit and run my client, which would open /dev/com0
for read/write and voila ... instant socket :).

I did some of this last night (hacked out send and socket and put write and
open in instead).  I figure i either need to hack the connect routine so that
it will blindly try to login (since i have already gotten the first message
from the server in my kermit session) or have it to all the fun connection
foo on its own (in which case i'll try to make up some sort of config file).

Unfortunately i'm still a little shakey on kermit and com ports ... does the
first method (blindly logging in) sound like it could work if i just suspend
kermit and run yabbs /dev/com0?  or should i not bother and just go for the
dialup code (which i'd probably end up putting in anyway).

any ideas?

-peter