First post, by InstantWare
I need a real dial-in modem connection to a remote MS-DOS host.
I would like to run the client within DOSBox running @ Mac OS X 10.4.10 on a PowerBook G4 which does have an internal modem.
I have installed DOSBox 0.71 and everything runs really nice, even the client program, except that I found no way how to make the connection to the internal modem.
According to all the documents, forum entries, how-toes, wiki pages, etc. that I found, regarding the above subject, there is no built-in way to do that with DOSBox @ Mac OS X.
Finally the following approach came to my mind, and before I sit down and spent the whole weekend for the implementation, I would like to ask the experts in this forum, whether that might be feasible:
1. using the DOSBox virtual modem to create an endpoint
listening at localhost on lets say port 1234
2. writing a small proxy socket daemon in C
which listens at localhost on lets say port 4321
Upon incomming connections, this proxy daemon
shall control the internal modem, which is supposed to
dial-in to the remote MS-DOS host.
3. All communication between the virtual modem of
DOSBox and the internal modem of the PowerBook
is handled by the proxy socket daemon.
Might this work?
Any better suggestions? serial1=/dev/cu.modem does nothing.
Many thanks for any help
Best regards
Rolf