RFC - Apple II / IBM PC Telnet Gateway

[!smentzer@ecom.net (Steve Mentzer)]

I was recently perusing some of my old projects, and I located a "telnet" 
gateway that I wrote some time back for Win32. 

Basically, this gateway allows a "dummy terminal" computer to connect to the 
"host" win32 machine and use it as a "gateway" to the internet via a standard 
serial connection (port speed is the only limitation). 

I am wondering if any of you would be interested in using this software (free 
of course) on your Win95/NT machines to allow your apple II use internet 
resources via telnet without having bother with an external modem for your II 
or Marinetti. 

Your Win95/NT box provides the connection to the internet, and the gateway 
software (win32 side) just forwards the information to and from the apple II. 
The only requirement apple II side is a null modem cable and terminal software 
such as proterm.

This can effectively give you a maximum telnet connection rate to the internet 
~equal to the port speed of your GS.

Now, I understand that marinetti allows you to connect to the internet, but it 
is limited to SLIP, and most ISP's aren't providing shell accounts anymore. 
This is the poor man's internet connection for a dummy terminal.

In addition, anyone with apple II serial comm port programming experience can 
coordinate with me to construct an FTP client as well. I would be more than 
happy to write the apple II FTP client, but I have *no* serial comm docs for 
the apple II, nor do I have the desire to reverse engineer and monkey around 
with it. If you have some "C" comm port libraries (orca/c/m), I will order the 
orca/c compiler from MikeW and get started on it.

Interested? Let me know via email, and I will polish it up, and release it.

smentzer@ecom.net