Bare with me for a minute...

I'm trying to cobble a programmable power terminal together using a Baytech RPC3 that I picked up cheap. The device (not a PC) that will be controlling it can send and receive data but doesn't support any terminal services (i.e. no Telnet) which is how the RPC3 communicates. What I thought I might be able to do is spoof terminal communications by sending/receiving data in the same format that would take place during a telnet session.

I'm a long time VB programmer but know next to nothing about telnet (or any terminal services). My thought was to connect my PC to the RPC3 and telnet in according to their specs. Then monitor the serial port and capture all of the data sent or received, in fact I probably don't need VB to monitor and capture the data but it was the first thing that came to mind. After I have all of the syntax/format whatever you want to call it from the telnet figured out I can program my device to send that data to the RPC3 as needed.


I realize this may be a little out there for the VB forum, but I thought I'd give it a shot. If anyone has insight with vb-telnet and/or vb-serial communication please tell me what you think, how would you start? Does this sound do-able?