Re: Telnet to conserver

Bryan Stansell wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 10:49:02AM -0500, Christopher Fowler wrote:
>> available to our customers.  You do not need the Cygwin environment.
>> You only need the dll.  So I created a zip file that contained
>> console.exe and cygwin?.dll.  It worked fine on the cmd.com prompt.
> 
> and this should work with 8.x.x as well.  you might need to compile
> things with '--with-port=XXX' so that an /etc/services lookup isn't
> needed, but aside from that, i don't see why dropping console.exe and
> cygwin1.dll in a directory and running it won't work.  haven't tried,
> however (i have a small development cygwin environment on my laptop).

I'll give that a try when I get a chance.  I hadn't thought to build a
static binary (another suggestion I got).

> sure would be entertaining to at least have a native console binary for
> windows...that would help ease everyone's pain.  who knows how tricky
> that'll be, though (i'm no windows programmer, that's for sure).

Yeah, neither am I.  I'm trying to stay sane with SuSE on VMWare. (sigh)

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     Chris Riddoch
epistemological humility