RE: Telnet Server

You can have your socket server connect to the standard Telnet server
running on the As400.  You then just forward the read buffer from your port
to the telnet connection.   Your program is then acting as a gateway to the
telnet server.  This allows you to do some pre and post processing to the
telnet server or connect strait to the telnet server.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Shannon O'Donnell [mailto:shannono@janodata.com]
Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2001 1:39 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Telnet Server


Using a socket program was a very good idea. I'd considered it once, but
wasn't sure where to go with it. I went out to Scott's site and took a look
at his tutorial.  Very, VERY! nice work on his part.  Excellent tutorial on
how to use sockets!

I think that using my own socket server would work if there was a way to
call the AS/400's telnet emulation programs manually via the socket server.
In otherwords, if I could use a socket to bind to a port of my choice, and
then once I'm on that remote system, have the AS/400's telnet programs
(those ran normally by the *TELNET server) initiated, then this approach
would work really well.