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   Message 3,812 of 5,461   
   Mark Hofmann to Rob Swindell   
   Re: Question for telnet/BBS gurus.   
   23 Jun 20 13:40:20   
   
   MSGID: 1:261/1304 5EF23E85   
   PID: WWIV BBS v. 424    
   TID: WWIVTOSS v. 1.52    
   RS> No, Telnet binary mode only affects the interpretation of the CR/LF and   
   RS> CR/NUL byte pairs, which most definitely are likely to be contained in   
   RS> many/most file transfers and thus need to have binary mode enabled to be   
   RS> received correctly (e.g. for chksum/crc validation purposes, if nothing   
   RS> else).   
      
   That appears to be what is happening in the case of the nested telnets when   
   doing a file transfer (other than Mystic->Mystic).     
      
   The transfer will start, get CRC errors, and eventually abort.   
      
   Mystic->Syncronet, Mystic->WWIV, GameSrv(TelnetDoor)->WWIV seem to suffer from   
   this when doing file transfers.  What is likely happening is the "enable   
   binary mode" is only going to the nested telnet and not both the nested and   
   the original one.    
   - Mark   
      
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