Subj : Solved issue with SyncTerm after up/download on my BBS
To   : Chris Gerlinsky
From : Roon
Date : Tue Apr 23 2024 08:50 pm

Hello Chris,

21 Apr 24 01:59, you wrote to me:

 Ro>> Answering a msg of <16 Apr 24>, from you to All:

 Ro>> wow. glad you found it. buuuut... it's not (only?) a dosbox
 Ro>> problem, my maximus/2 behaves the same with synchterm... :)

 CG> I tested on your board before I had posted and didn't notice trouble
 CG> after a file transfer, but then I didn't test very well!  The symptoms
 CG> can be a bit funny can't they.

 CG> I am not sure why Maximus doesn't like to operate within an ASCII
 CG> telnet connection as I would expect the telnet interface (Vmodem or
 CG> DOSBox-X in our cases) to translate anything that needs to be
 CG> translated.  I wonder if other BBS software has the same behaviour.

 CG> If there's a way to send a telnet negotiation command through the
 CG> Vmodem connection, you can include after file transfers (or in the top
 CG> of the file menu?) the telnet IAC commands to switch to binary mode
 CG> and that may solve the problem for you.

did you try other terminal emulators or just synchterm?

Regards,
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dp

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