Re: the pervasiveness of TPDD protocol

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Stephen Adolph <twospruces@...> wrote:
> Furthermore, it seems that since TPDD protocol will work well over
> wide area, and is by nature unable to overflow the RX buffers on the
> M100, then it could be further expanded like was done by TS (the
> desklink extensions), to support
>
> * terminal sessions
> * file downloads within terminal
>
> And, since we are likely to use terminal to run web apps, then we have
> a generalized solution for bi-directional data transfer with the M100.
>
>
> So, I guess my proposal is to further expand TPDD protocol to handle
> other forms of data transfer, so it is the underlying transport
> protocol for data to and from the wide-area network gateway.
>

Yeah Ken and I have talked a bit about that TS-DOS extensions so you
could tunnel shell access through it among other things.

It wouldn't be hard to do.

Note though that TS-DOS is request/response, and terminal sessions are
generally not request/response. So either you have to simulate an
interactive session by constantly polling, or you have to break the
request/response abstraction and permit asynchronous/unsolicited data.

-- John.