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|    Deon George to Rob Swindell    |
|    Re: Question for telnet/BBS gurus.    |
|    23 Jun 20 13:13:41    |
      TZUTC: 1000       MSGID: 225.fdn_bbscarni@3:633/509 2356aa46       REPLY: 9946.bbs_carn@1:103/705 2356c680       PID: Synchronet 3.18a-Linux Jun 21 2020 GCC 8.3.0       TID: SBBSecho 3.11-Linux r3.173 Jun 21 2020 GCC 8.3.0       CHRS: ASCII 1       NOTE: SlyEdit 1.73 (2020-03-31) (ICE style)        Re: Re: Question for telnet/BBS gurus.        By: Rob Swindell to Deon George on Mon Jun 22 2020 07:32 pm               RS> Telnet binary mode has to do with the translation of received CR/LF and        RS> CR/NUL pairs to a single carriage-return character (0x0D) and nothing to        RS> do with the Telnet IAC character (0xFF) which must always be escaped and        RS> parsed correctly, always, binary mode or not.              But isnt in telnet binary mode, 0xFF needs to be received twice consectively       before the other end should interpret what should follow?              I must admit I havent read the finer details of how things are parsed when in       it goes in this mode - but I assumed this mode assisted binary file transfers       that are likely to have those special control chars that would normally be       intepreted as IAC commands.              ...лоеп              ... Help a swallow land at Capistrano.       --- SBBSecho 3.11-Linux        * Origin: I'm playing with ANSI+videotex - wanna play too? (3:633/509)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 18/200 90/1 120/340 601 123/131 226/30 227/114 229/101       SEEN-BY: 229/424 426 452 664 1014 240/5832 249/206 317 400 317/3 322/757       SEEN-BY: 342/200 633/0 267 280 281 412 416 509 712/848       PATH: 633/509 280 229/426           |
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