Subj : Re: Escape Sequences to initiate HTTP transfers
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : deepthaw
Date : Tue Nov 21 2023 11:30 am

On 21 Nov 2023, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...
 pF> 
 pF> That does sound very cool. I created a DOS BBS environment in DOSBOX
 pF> with MTCP, Telix, Multimail, Qedit and all of my old DOS utils like
 pF> Xtree. File transfers were always a problem unless I slowed the connect
 pF> speed down to 38400.
 pF> 
 pF> (DOSBOX has a virtual comm port where you can emulate a COMX: port in DOS
 pF> redirecting to a TCP port. Redirect COM1: to TCP 23, and send an ATDT
 pF> command with the name/IP of the BBS, and it connects. Works great for
 pF> telnet sessions, not so much for file transfers)

I need to do more messing with virtualized DOS sessions too. I'm slowly building an ancient homelab with my old computers, and was actually relying on BBS's for a bit to get some files onto my 486 while I scrambled to get the necessary hardware to transfer files to it. (Windows 11 doesn't work with the USB <-> Serial adapter or I'd have used that.)

The really weird part is that zmodem works about 90% of the time for downloads, but consistently fails on uploads. Thankfully I've only been uploading .REP packets from BlueWave and they're small enough that using Kermit isn't a total killer. (Kermit? KERMIT? There's vintage, and then there's obsolete.)

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
 * Origin: 2o fOr beeRS bbs>>>20ForBeers.com:1337 (21:2/150)

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