[MacPerl] MacPerl terminal server?

[Aaron Mansheim <a-manshe@runet.edu>]

I've been trying to think out a way to let two people telnet from
my one PPP connection. Preferably I wouldn't have to devote a lot of
disk space to something like MacBSD and I wouldn't have to get a
second phone line.

I think a terminal server written in MacPerl, or else in C using GUSI,
would do just what I want. A terminal (or emulator) on the printer
port would talk to the terminal server, which in turn would talk to
the network and manage a telnet connection.

I guess a very simple telnet server would work for me -
when there is no open connection it might allow the user to type an
IP address and port as a line; when there is an open connection
it might watch for closing and let the user initiate closing by
typing ^]. Otherwise it could just copy data back and forth.
It wouldn't have to be blazingly fast, either.

Has anyone written a terminal server for MacPerl, however simple?

Is there support for serial ports for MacPerl?
-- 
Aaron Mansheim, MS exp '97, Computational Sciences, Radford University
<mailto:a-manshe@runet.edu> <http://www.runet.edu/~a-manshe/>