From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   On Friday, June 18, 2021 at 12:01:54 AM UTC+10, Joe Monk wrote:   
   > > You seem to be one of the people deliberately making it   
   > > more complicated than necessary, to keep software in   
   > > the hands of the elite.   
   > >   
   > > I have no idea what you are talking about.   
      
   > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeral_port   
   >   
   > Its the mechanism that allows a server to handle multiple clients at the   
   same time... There is nothing complicated about it.   
      
   It is complicated.   
      
   For now I'm only interested in one connection at a time   
   anyway (corresponding to one physical modem) and   
   non-multitasking systems.   
      
   If it turns out that it is necessary for even an *application*   
   to be burdened by a whole lot of TCP/IP shit just to cope   
   with incoming or outgoing glorified modem connections,   
   when multi-user/multitasking is involved, so be it.   
      
   But as far as I can tell, the simple case can be handled   
   by a simple fopen() with everything being C90-compliant,   
   except for the use of ESC and XON which are   
   character-set-specific. And the BBS doesn't even see   
   the XON. Even the BBS's OS doesn't see it. Although   
   maybe it should. It's unclear to me what the right thing   
   to do is.   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
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