[ale] Running a app on Telnet

[mdhirsch at gmail.com (Michael Hirsch)]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 6:59 AM, Chuck Payne <terrorpup at gmail.com> wrote:
> Guys,
>
> This is a bit of old school, I got a group of buddies that want to do
> some RPG, for you young kids that Role Playing Games, One of my
> buddies asked is there a way I could set up a pick your own path game
> for as he over sea wants to do a bit solo playing.
>
> OK where I need some input. I like to set up a app to be able to run
> so that he can use telnet to get to. I like to also jail the app to
> make it secure.

I think that netcat is what you want.  I believe that you can have
netcat listen to a port and output to standard out, and listen to
stdin and send that to the port.  So now you just hook that up to your
shell script and you are home free.

See "man netcat" for details.

Michael