Subj : Escape Sequences to initiate HTTP transfers
To   : deepthaw
From : deon
Date : Tue Nov 21 2023 04:15 pm

  Re: Escape Sequences to initiate HTTP transfers
  By: deepthaw to All on Mon Nov 20 2023 08:44 am

 > I'm stubborn AF and insist on using period-accurate (aka my old and shitty
 > 486 running MS-DOS 6.22) hardware when accessing BBS's. However, I'm almost
 > at my wit's end on using a wifimodem because it mangles file transfers so
 > frequently. (Some BBS's it works okay on, some it utterly fails, etc.)

I imagine its got to do with "telnet" vs "raw".

Where possible you want to use "raw" mode and in theory zmodem transfers should work just fine - well, depending on how fast your side is vs the sender's side. (zmodem doesnt do well when 1 side is faster than the other - over IP - because TCP buffers fill up and takes a long time to drain).

If you want to use a zmodem based mailer, then I should be able to help you out. My DOS bbs works well, and Spectre gets mail from me using FrontDoor.

 > When my new NIC shows up, I plan on investigating using mTCP to connect to
 > systems instead. That would theoretically allow me to instead use it's http
 > downloader to receive transfers from those sites that support it - which
 > would be quite nice.

In theory I could also add on http mail transfers to clrghouz, if that helps... Its something that I've been meaning to implement, but havent got around to it yet. one day...


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