From: jsm AT jsm-net DOT demon DOT co DOT uk (James Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.programming,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: can i et hold of a copy of a telnet program's source code
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 20:54:16 GMT
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In article <778f8k$298$1 AT samba DOT rahul DOT net> axlq AT unicorn DOT us DOT com (to comp.os.linux.development.apps) writes:
>In article <36938A55 DOT C4D92A61 AT ehsco DOT com>, Eric A. Hall <ehall AT ehsco DOT com> wrote:
>>
>>Are you asking how to setup a terminal for a process to use as its
>>input/output mechanism, like SMTP/POP use "telnet" for communications?
>
>I don't know about the original poster, but that's exactly what *I* am
>looking for.  Any sort of code example that would serve as a tutorial,
>without the telnet/terminal handling baggage.

If you want to see how a POP client is written, you could grab the source of
fetchmail:

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail
ftp://ftp.ccil.org/pub/esr/fetchmail

It is tidy code and the functions should be ok to follow for a beginner (well,
I can understand them.) The code should be ok to adapt to other uses.

You'll also want the relevant RFCs to your application, sorry I can't provide
the numbers. 

jsm