The major part of this change has been contributed by

<andyw@pobox.com>.

Implements patch #4635: Add support for terminal/console servers for
serial programmers

* ser_posix.c: Add net_open(), and divert to it for net:host:port.
* ser_win32.c: Recognize net:host:port, and bail out.
* avrdude.1: Document the net:host:port connection option.
* doc/avrdude.texi: (Ditto.)


git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/avrdude/trunk/avrdude@635 81a1dc3b-b13d-400b-aceb-764788c761c2

ser_win32.c

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 /*
  * avrdude - A Downloader/Uploader for AVR device programmers
  * Copyright (C) 2003, 2004  Martin J. Thomas  <mthomas@rhrk.uni-kl.de>
+ * Copyright (C) 2006  Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
  *
  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -110,6 +111,20 @@ static int ser_open(char * port, long baud)
 	LPVOID lpMsgBuf;
 	HANDLE hComPort=INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE;
 
+	/*
+	 * If the port is of the form "net:<host>:<port>", then
+	 * handle it as a TCP connection to a terminal server.
+	 *
+	 * This is curently not implemented for Win32.
+	 */
+	if (strncmp(port, "net:", strlen("net:")) == 0) {
+		fprintf(stderr,
+			"%s: ser_open(): network connects are currently not"
+			"implemented for Win32 environments\n",
+			progname);
+		exit(1);
+	}
+
 	/* if (hComPort!=INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) 
 		fprintf(stderr, "%s: ser_open(): \"%s\" is already open\n",
 				progname, port);