From: nedry <nedry@...>
Date: 2003-05-17T00:11:32+09:00
Subject: popen and the bbs

Thank you Nobu, that fixed it, atleast in terms of working with things like telnet... it reads and writes to it fine.  The problem is, I am trying to interface it with dosemu, which wants something called named pipes.  I set up some pipes, but it doesn't work.  Here's what the man pages says...

-U

define inpipe and outpipe for asynchronous control of DOSEMU from an other process. The format is (whithout white spaces between)

inpipe:outpipe

where `:outpipe' can be omitted. In the latter case no feedback from DOSEMU can be expected.

For security reasons DOSEMU does not create the named pipes itself, so the user is responsible to set the permissions of the pipes correctly. Note that when using this options, the foreign process can control your DOSEMU session (such as entering keystrokes). This option should therefor only used by frontends (such as kdos), which first create the proper named pipes and then launch DOSEMU. A special control command ( ''ack on'' ) can be used to force DOSEMU returning handshake taggs via `outpipe' such that the frontend knows when the control command has started or finished and wether it was successful. The format of this tagging is...

I don't understand how to do this.  It doesn't work just setting up the pipes and running it the way telnet does.  I'm more than willing to accept that this isn't the right list for the question, but if anyone has any idea, that would be great...

thanks again!

Mark