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Re: general purpose cleint - anyone wants?
On Fri, 27 Oct 1995, guy keren wrote:
> sometime back (in the glorious army days) i wanted to write my own
> "irc-like" server/client. i ended up with some pathetic "clone" of the
> irc client/server system (don't laugh, it does work nice). the only
> "interesting" idea i involved in its development, was making the grammar
> or the protocol defined in an external file. this makes it very easy to
> modify the configuration file so the client will be able to talk to
> different ASCII-based servers. Since it has some simple line-editting and
> command line history too, i realized it can be used as a nice tool to
> debug new ASCII servers - just edit the protocol files, and it'll talk to
> SMTP servers, irc servers, NNTP servers (well, maybe not NNTP, since it's
> not sophisticated enough), or other servers people create every now and then.
>
> if anyone is interested, i'd make the source available. anyone has a good
> use to such a thing ? perhaps ideas how it could be further developed
> into a usefull tool ?
Hello guy
Just a thought: If it could sit and listen to a port, it could be a
"service provider" itself... Maybe a "server" version of the program
could interact with a "client" program, openning the way to tons of
application like:
- xtacacsd-like authentication
- serial number sharing betwin software
- parallel computing on several remote CPUs, one server controlling
the sub-jobs exchanging data...
- several uses, like a dictionary server, or any other database for
that matter.
Just my thoughts. No, I just don't have the time to develop.
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Arik Baratz, Regularus Studentus, iNTP, 4Z9DGE
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