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By: Fred Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Mailinglist 'miami-talk-ml' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On: Monday, March 05, 2001, 12:56:45 PM
Re: [Miami] Re: telser.device
Hi Fred,
>>> I have it in one of my DEVS: directories, and it works fine there
>>> (with VLT). That's certainly where you're supposed to put drivers. If
>>> Term expects otherwise it's a bug. It also shouldn't be necessary to
>>> include "DEVS:" in the name, since that's where OpenDevice() is going
>>> to look.
TS>> I never did work out why it needed me to do that. But it wouldn't
TS>> work, unless I did.
FW> SnoopDOS is your friend. :-)
To be honest, it was such a low priority, I never got around to resolving
the issue. One day, I must, though.
>>> I've certainly used file transfers with VLT+Telser on the client side,
>>> though perhaps only with Kermit. IIRC I had trouble with ZModem,
>>> which I suspected was due to a transparency bug in Telser. I *have*
>>> used MiamiTelnet for ZModem transfers, though.
TS>> I've got them to work, where I've logged into a service as a client.
TS>> But not when I was running my BBS through telser.device as a server.
FW> With what transfer protocol? There are a couple of transparency issues:
I only ever bothered trying ZMODEM, actually. It never really occurred to
me to try another. I know I have got ZMODEM transfers to work, when I've
telnetted into other BBSs, albeit slowly.
FW> 1) Telser (as client at least) fails to convert transmitted CR to
FW> CR-LF or CR-NUL. When the server correctly converts received CR-LF to
FW> CR, this means that a real LF that follows a CR gets swallowed.
FW> 2) Given #1, I wouldn't be surprised if it failed to convert an
FW> apparent IAC (0xFF) to IAC-IAC to get it through Telnet command
FW> parsing.
What protocol would you recommend? I know someone else who nearly always
uses Kermit, but my BBS didn't support that. It's only the freebie Max's
BBS, I run the thing just for the fun of it, so no extra money's going to
be spent on it. And all the other BBS software that I've played with, is
so stupidly over complicated to configure, I might as well learn C and
write my own.
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