I'm stubborn AF and insist on using period-accurate (aka my old and shitty 486 running MS-DOS 6.22) hardware when accessing BBS's. However, I'm almost at my wit's end on using a wifimodem because it mangles file transfers so frequently. (Some BBS's it works okay on, some it utterly fails, etc.)
When my new NIC shows up, I plan on investigating using mTCP to connect to systems instead. That would theoretically allow me to instead use it's http downloader to receive transfers from those sites that support it - which would be quite nice.
I imagine its got to do with "telnet" vs "raw".
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When my new NIC shows up, I plan on investigating using mTCP to connect
to systems instead. That would theoretically allow me to instead use
it's http downloader to receive transfers from those sites that support
it - which would be quite nice.
That does sound very cool. I created a DOS BBS environment in DOSBOX
with MTCP, Telix, Multimail, Qedit and all of my old DOS utils like
Xtree. File transfers were always a problem unless I slowed the connect speed down to 38400.
(DOSBOX has a virtual comm port where you can emulate a COMX: port in DOS redirecting to a TCP port. Redirect COM1: to TCP 23, and send an ATDT command with the name/IP of the BBS, and it connects. Works great for telnet sessions, not so much for file transfers)
Kermit isn't a total killer. (Kermit? KERMIT? There's vintage, and then there's obsolete.)
The really weird part is that zmodem works about 90% of the time for downloads, but consistently fails on uploads. Thankfully I've only been
Would it be worthwhile in the community to investigate an escape sequence similar to zmodem's to signal to, and initiate those types of transfers for people like me (aka, me and only me) using such tools to handle file transfers? I assume the current expectation is to to just copy and paste
There was some conversation in other FTN (I think Spooknet) to introduce improved version of ZModem that could utilize Gigabit/fiber.. both seem
to be concept to address fast download directly from BBS terminal connection.
kinda went a bit overboard but you get the idea
Is that your goal or you fancy HTTP for some other reasons in such case?
Is that your goal or you fancy HTTP for some other reasons in such case?
Reliable file transfers over a variety of transport methods for old computers when interfacing with bbses really. An improved zmodem (alphamodem?) or really anything would be neat.
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