Subj : Re: Kannons and Katapults - R
To   : Stephen Hurd
From : Mike Powell
Date : Sat Dec 06 2025 11:14:33


 > So, the DOSBOX-X "softmodem" does support a telnet mode that may help with
 > the issue... "ATNET1" selects telnet (and "ATNET0" turns it back off).

 > The thing to be careful of is that the entire command gets otherwise ignored
 > if the substring "NET1" or "NET0" is in it, so if you're doing other init
 > stuff you need to be sure it's separate.

So when I am in the BBS program and send 'ATNET1' to the DB-X "modem" I do get
an "OK," which would make me think it supports it.  To verify this, I sent an
unknown string, 'ATBAG', and got "ERROR."

However, if I set the host mode init string to:

ATNET1|~~AT(actual init string)|

Which should send the ATNET1<cr>, wait a couple of seconds, and then send the
real init.

I then used the telnet protocol to connect and I still got the same double-CR
issue I had before.  So apparently it recognizes ATNETx as a valid string but
otherwise knows not what it means.... or I need to send it a different way.

Unlike BinkleyTerm, the BBS software *doesn't* have a separate pre-init that
can be defined.

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