[sclug] Exporting a terminal over the network

[Roland Turner SCLUG]

Paul wrote:


> Additionally I found a program called "socat", which would allow me to
> export a tty over the network as a telnet session. I could put ttyR0-47
> on telnet ports 3000-30047 and the world would be heppy. Trouble is
> socat doesnt support all that xon/xoff loveliness I need.


Are you certain? The man page claims a complete set of TERMIOS options
including xon and xoff (which, despite the ridiculous names, relate to
inward and outward flow control characters respectively).

- Raz