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|    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              --- WWIVToss v.1.52         * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (1:261/1304.0)       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: 342/200 633/280       PATH: 261/1304 1 266/512 261/38 396/45 280/464 229/101 426           |
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