Subj : Re: Telnet and ZMODEM
To   : Rampage
From : Dennisk
Date : Tue May 05 2020 09:20:00

-=> Rampage wrote to Arelor <=-

 Ra>   Re: Telnet and ZMODEM
 Ra>   By: Arelor to Boraxman on Mon May 04 2020 07:04:10


 Ra>  Arelor> I think people is using minicom for serial file transfers but
 Ra> I
 Ra>  Arelor> don't know for sure.

 Ra> there is no minicom installed here... nor any other text mode terminal
 Ra> program other than xterm, konsole, and similar that come standard with
 Ra> this Kubuntu installation...

 Ra> i open a text terminal window (konsole) and type

 Ra>   telnet mybbs

 Ra> OR

 Ra>   ssh mybbs

 Ra> which connects to my sbbs... i log in, go to the [T]ransfer section,
 Ra> find a file to download, and tell the bbs to send it... that's all i
 Ra> do... the zmodem start sequence triggers my terminal to perform a
 Ra> zmodem download and it saves the file in my normal "Downloads"
 Ra> directory...

 Ra> i can also upload files in almost the same manner by using
 Ra> CTRL-ALT-U... it just works :)


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That is because Konsole is capturing and handling Zmodem traffic, not telnet
itself.  I'm guessing that it either used to be able to do it, or only with
certain types of connections (ie, serial), and that the instructions I've seen
are not applicable to TCP connections, but didn't state so.


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