Zmodem through Telnet on DOSBOX-X
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russdoggy · 2020-10-31 12:34

Probably an old topic, but it's got me stumped right now.  I've been
playing around with putting my old WWIV BBS back online on a Raspberry
Pi utilizing dosbox-x.  I've got everything mostly functional under
WWIV v4.30b except for getting Zmodem to work.  By googling, I've
found a lot of folks who have encountered this problem, but I cannot
find a solution.  I've tried just about every Zmodem external protocol
I can find,  but cannot find one that will supress the non-telnetable
characters.

The protocol with this fixed clearly exists because Zmodem is the
standard in terminals to connect to telnet BBS, just wondering if
anybody has ported this fix to an external protocol that will run in
DOS.

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mro_1337 · 2020-10-31 23:22

did you use cexyz.


dosbox is not dos.

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russdoggy · 2020-11-02 17:28

I'm aware that dosbox has its limitations.

I cannot find a reliable link with cexyz available for download.  I've
tried just about every other external protocol software.  Do you have
a working link?

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mro_1337 · 2020-11-04 02:26

did you try a google search? [http://cd.textfiles.com/ftp.wwiv.com/pub
/UTILITY/](http://cd.textfiles.com/ftp.wwiv.com/pub/UTILITY/)

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mro_1337 · 2020-11-04 02:26

did you try pdzmodem.


just dont use dosbox if you want transfer protocols to work. some
people have problems uploading, some have problems downloading.   it's
not the correct environment

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russdoggy · 2020-11-04 02:49

Trying to make an environmnet work on a Raspberry Pi and it is
definitely the most functional dos environment for that platform. Non-
fossil driven BBSes appear to work...I'll probably start running down
that path.

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mro_1337 · 2020-11-04 03:42

okay now you will see why not having a fossil is a bad idea