Subj : ZMODEM with QICO
To   : alterego
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun Apr 12 2020 17:53:50

  Re: ZMODEM with QICO
  By: alterego to All on Mon Apr 13 2020 10:28 am

 > Howdy, hoping somebody could help clarify something for me. Does anybody use
 > qico (or did)?
 >
 > I've been playwith qico (another ifcico ftn mailer), mainly because ifcico
 > from the debian repositories coredumps when you change some config settings
 > like debugging. It also looks like I can call a tossing action after
 > received mail, which I havent figured out how to do with ifcico (unless I
 > used cron). I'm using it to send mail to my 1995 BBS that is Portal of Power
 > 0.62.
 >
 > I noticed that ZedZap transfers wouldnt start, I started debugging the code,
 > and noticed that a <CR> <LF> where not sent from POP with a HEX header
 > (after the CRC) - only an XON.
 >
 > I was curious as to why ifcico was working, and from it's code it looks like
 > it doesnt check for <CR><LF> either - in fact it looks like it discards
 > anything received after the CRC (if the CRC matches) (up to the size of the
 > header).
 >
 > So I made the a similar change for qico (I exit if I get the XON), and it
 > works, just wondering if this the right course of action and if there are
 > any side affects?

Never used QICO, but ZedZap is a variant of ZMODEM. If it helps, you can look at the ZMODEM implementation we use for SEXYZ here:
http://cvs.synchro.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/src/sbbs3/zmodem.c?view=log

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