Terminal Emulation?

[Robin Lee Powell]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 12:08:06AM +0100, Denys Duchier wrote:
> rlpowell at digitalkingdom.org (Robin Lee Powell) writes:
> 
> > It very much doesn't work.  In particular, anything that uses any
> > terminal features at all fails, presumably because bash thinks that
> > it is talking to STDIN and STDOUT and can't see a terminal.
> 
> This is not really a Mozart related question.
> 
> bash thinks it is talking to a regular stream because it IS.  You have
> exactly the same issue with pipes when doing shell programming.  If
> you need a PTY, it needs to be explicitly allocated.  

OK.  Can you give me any pointers on doing that in Mozart?  8)

> I don't think that bash can do that.  On the other hand ssh has the -t
> option for just this occasion (pretty convenient for tunelling a
> regular terminal connection through several host indirections, btw).

Ah.  That *almost* works.  It certainly works much better.  Thanks.

> On the other hand, using Oz just for establishing a terminal
> connection isn't exactly what the technology was intended for :-) We
> were kind of aiming at something a little beyond that, ahem...

Well, this would be part of a much larger program.  What I want is a way
for users telnetted to a TCP/IP port that's run by a Mozart program to
be able to interact with an arbitrary terminal-based program on the
machine the Mozart program is running on.

If there's a better way to do that, please let me know!!

-Robin

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