[Simh] Serial Console

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2012-07-03 19:27, Holger Veit wrote:
> Am 03.07.2012 18:58, schrieb Peter Svensson:
>> On Tue, 3 Jul 2012, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
>>
>>> What about other solutions? I haven't used the simulated DZ up to now,
>>> but if I get it, it maps the serial ports to (telnet'able) IP/Port
>>> network sockets, right?
>>>
>>> If so, why not simply write a little program to configure the serial
>>> port and splice it to the network socket? Or a small script using
>>> `stty' and `nc'?
>> Baud rate changes, modem control lines and so on. Break handling.
> Device names, Baudrate setting, and modem is no issue in Unix and
> Windows (don't know about VMS),
> but break handling; basically any out-of-band processing is difficult to
> impossible (but this hasn't been handled properly for TCP/IP sockets for
> MUX either).

Baud rate change is just as much out of band information as a break.

> A software adaptor to convert between serial and telnet is IMHO a kludge
> which just says "the simh developers can't
> to it right themselves" (stty/nc as a script is even less portable).

Right. But it's not even that simple. It will be a kludge that you 
cannot get right.

	Johnny