Subj : [--- SLIP/PPP FTP ? ---]
To   : WINSTON SMITH
From : DAVE OLDRIDGE
Date : Thu Sep 07 2000 10:51 am

WS>  CA> Generally, if you were to telnet to an FTP port you would
WS>  CA> be unable to do a transfer because telnet does not
WS>  CA> 'shift' into an FTP protocol (none I've seen so far).

WS> Hmm...  FTP services have to be on the modem gateway?  I thought
WS> everything was TCP/IP.  I was hoping that I could telnet connect a
WS> command channel and telnet connect a data channel and issue commands
WS> off of my PC and be in business.  I am still trying to figure out how to
WS> make an FTP link from my PC, through the server, through the internet,
WS> to the desktop with Synchronet BBS on it.  I figured with soon to be
WS> Internet only BBSes, that I better find a TCP/IP/FTP capable program to
WS> add as an adjunct to my terminal program.

You're between a rock and a hard place.  If you get a PPP or SLIP 
connection with FNOS, you don't have Zmodem in that telnet client.  And if 
you FTP from there to the BBS, it seems you are getting Rich's Serv-U FTP 
server which may or may not let you have files from the BBS directories.

If you use a DOS client to log onto the server, then you need a 
transparent connection as well as a transparent telnet connection to the BBS.  
And your DOS client needs to be a terminal emulator with Zmodem 
capability (even if you must add it external). And, unless you can tame the 
timer (or, it is to be hoped, Rich has it tamed at his end), you still risk 
interference between the two transport protocols (both Zmodem and TCP 
serve this function).

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