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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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