Subj : Re: New terminal program
To   : Omnibrain
From : boraxman
Date : Tue Dec 06 2022 23:40:38

 Om>  bo> SZModem.  You could play tetris with someone at the other end, or cha
 Om>  bo> while the file was transferring.
 Om> 
 Om> I still have RIPScript on the todo list but I'm surely not going that
 Om> route including games :). ZModem can be pretty fast - I got DL speed to
 Om> my line limit - ~5-10MB/s I don't see much of a bottleneck there.
 Om> 
 Om> However I limited speed a bit for upload - I broke some BBS connections.
 Om> Telnet doesn't have much overhead.
 Om> 
 Om> Now to Tetris - get Steam or the Epic Games store there are plenty of
 Om> games out there :). If there is a real transfer protocol missing that
 Om> can be used somewhere I'll put it on the todo list.
 Om> 
 Om> ATM I'm uncertain about the Kermit protocol - but that's the only one.
 Om> Haven't seen any BBS that supports something beyond xyz & Kermit yet.
 Om> 
 Om> General update:
 Om> The next thing I do is to make a really, really fast terminal control -
 Om> I'm currently writing this message with it. It's really awesome (on
 Om> Linux - need to check other platforms). All I need to do is to improve
 Om> the shader a bit then I'll release it - switched the UI API, reworked
 Om> the communication layer - faster than ever and the lightning fast UI
 Om> control on top. I hope it'll be ready this week. 0.30.0 may contain more
 Om> bugs (not in the engine itself) - feedback would be nice. Esp. if the
 Om> direction where it's going is a good or bad one.
 Om> 

ZModem is quite good, I even use it time to time when I SSH into another computer.  An easy way to do a quick file send from one machine to another.  But I have to make sure to escape all control characters, as a large transfer may fail.

For BBS's, sometimes it just doesn't work.  IT may pause, give errors, or fail completely, or not even start.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Linux/64)
 * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

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