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|    Deon George to Mark Hofmann    |
|    Question for telnet/BBS gurus.    |
|    18 Jun 20 15:27:14    |
      TZUTC: 1000       MSGID: 206.fdn_bbscarni@3:633/509 23503200       REPLY: 1:261/1304 5EEA9382       PID: Synchronet 3.18a-Linux May 22 2020 GCC 8.3.0       TID: SBBSecho 3.11-Linux r3.173 May 22 2020 GCC 8.3.0       CHRS: CP437 2       NOTE: SlyEdit 1.73 (2020-03-31) (ICE style)        Re: Question for telnet/BBS gurus.        By: Mark Hofmann to All on Wed Jun 17 2020 06:04 pm               MH> Have a question for the telnet gurus out there. Trying to get to the        MH> bottom of why file transfers (using any serial based protocol) don't work        MH> on my OS/2 SIO based BBS nodes via a double telnet.              It would probably be because one of the (telnet) streams (or both), are not       put into "binary mode" - and thus the telnet client or server is interpreting       some of the binary chars that would be sent.              As per the wikipedia:       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telnet              "Another difference between Telnet and other TCP terminal clients is that       Telnet is not 8-bit clean by default. 8-bit mode may be negotiated, but octets       with the high bit set may be garbled until this mode is requested, as 7 bit is       the default mode."              ...лоеп              ... Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit.       --- SBBSecho 3.11-Linux        * Origin: I'm playing with ANSI+videotex - wanna play too? (3:633/509)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 18/200 90/1 120/340 601 123/131 226/30 227/114 702       SEEN-BY: 229/101 424 426 452 664 1014 240/5832 249/206 317 400 317/3       SEEN-BY: 322/757 342/200 633/0 267 280 281 412 416 509 712/848       PATH: 633/509 280 229/426           |
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