Subj : Re: New terminal program
To   : NuSkooler
From : Spectre
Date : Mon Dec 05 2022 08:50:00

 Nu> HSLink (I believe it was) rocked. Y is OKish for the web, but in generall
 Nu> all of these are pretty horrible for going over telnet / TCP/IP.

 Nu> We really need a 'modern' protocol (nothing to invent here really) that
 Nu> boards that can't natively support can just drop in (think "httpxfer.exe"
 Nu> or w/e). One of the issues is it really needs to run from a differnet
 Nu> socket connection though (ie: port) as Telnet itself gets in the way of
 Nu> decent transfers.

HAve to concur with the viability of traditional transfers over TCP.  Not
sure how ancient software is going to cope with swapping sockets.. the most
obvious would be some kind of FTP implementation, in this day and age it
ought to be reasonably trivial.

Spec


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