> Good luck. in.pmd interfaces at a low level with the TTYs on each UNIX.
> The reason in.pmd died was that each UNIX does TTYs differently - AND they
> tend to change them arbitrarily and regularly. Keeping up with that, in
> light of the steadily decreasing demand, doomed it. Work load goes up as
> return goes down.
Hrm..cant you access at the tcp level with java? Or are you saying you
have to get LOWER than that?
> Last I knew there were no longer any engineers actively working on in.pmd.
> I expect that if OSes change and the existing version breaks, they'll just
> remove it from the feature list until it is no more. Personally I think it
> should be removed from the list and made an unsupported 'as-is' item at
> this point. Either that or replace it with something, but that doesn't
> seem likely with the overall direction of the market.
But its such a nice thing. To be able to use 1 channel instead of multiple
channels for telnets for example, seems more efficient.
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