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brentp@bit.net.au (Brent Paddon) writes:
>
> We had a lot of suggestions to use minicom.  Not really what we are after.
> 
> More like, we'd like to be able to setup a dummy interface (similar
> to what you would do for a virtual web site), and have a daemon that will listen
> for a telnet request to that IP address, and then automatically (ie DONT run
> minicom - anyone could do that in about 5 mins) connect you to the PABX's
> serial port, and simply transfer characters between the serial
> port and the telnet connection.
> 
> We thought surely someone must be doing this *somewhere* ???

I just ran into something that might interest you:

  ``tcpclient and tcpserver are easy-to-use command-line tools for
    building TCP client-server applications.  

    tcpclient makes a TCP connection and runs a program of your choice.  

    tcpserver waits for incoming connections and, for each connection,
    runs a program of your choice. Your program receives environment
    variables showing the local and remote host names, IP addresses,
    and port numbers.'' 

<ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/ucspi-tcp.html>

I have not used this package myself, but it may be worth your while to
check it out.

Hope this helps.
-- 
Manfred Bartz <mbartz@werple.net.au>
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