[bf1942] Remote Console support

[g8 at the.whole.net]

Unfortunately there's no documentation, for anything :(.  The existing
remote console app is 'a bad thing' for the most part (slow, clumsy,
windows only :).  It would be very, very nice to have a *nix command line
application that performed the same functions with easier commands (and
other features the existing app does not have, including the ability to be
interfaced with scripts/bots/gui).

-g8

On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, ScratchMonkey wrote:

> --On Thursday, January 02, 2003 4:12 PM -0500 g8 at the.whole.net wrote:
>
> > Why not make it command line or something you can interface with some nice
> > PHP (or other preferred scripting language)?  Then it would be totally
> > cross platform.
>
> His current program is essentially a GUI wrapper over the command-line
> remote console. But it might be good to take the protocol part and abstract
> that out as a separate command-line thing and then one could create various
> GUI apps that communicate locally with it. But the only reason to need that
> is because the existing remote console is still too unreliable or slow to
> talk to directly. Is that in fact the case?
>
> BTW, where's the documentation for the remote console protocol? I just
> tried telnet'ing to it and get binary gibberish.
>