Subj : Fdsz
To   : Mike Powell
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Fri Apr 08 2005 05:42 pm

  Re: Fdsz
  By: Mike Powell to Gordon Lewicky on Thu Apr 07 2005 12:57 pm

 > GL>Vmodem is only an modem emulator and I believe you can't run Vmodem
 > GL>without SIO. SIO is the fossil. If you have the sio lines in
 > GL>config.sys stating which ports are "INTERNET" then you are running
 > GL>a fossil.
 > 
 > Yep, I've got a fossil, then.  ;-)
 > 
 > GL>DSZ should work as long as the pass params are correct and you
 > GL>have the proper dsz environ vars set.
 > 
 > GL>DSZ works quite well here in telnet, tho I've only set it up with
 > GL>Zmodem.
 > 
 > Yeah, I figured out that I had an enviro thing set wrong in a set path.
 > Fixed that, and all my external protocols work fine now.
 > 
 > I have wondered if Ymodem-G is appropriate to have available on a telnet
 > bbs.  The caller may have dialed-into their ISP using an error-correcting
 > modem, but I don't think that the cable modem on this end is.  ;-)

Telnet runs over TCP and TCP is an "error-correcting protocol", so in theory
Ymodem-G should run just dandy over Telnet. In reality, it depends on the
implementation (protocol driver) used.

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