Hi Rob,

I got some things figured out. Your bbs puts the telnet connection in binary
mode. My bbs runs from inetd and doesn't put the telnet connection into
binary mode.

Some terminal programs put the telnet connection in binary mode, but
syncterm does not.

I experimented with minicom over modemu, and with some switches you can put
modemeu to force the telnet connection into binary mode or not. If I don't
set modemu binary then I get the same problems as syncterm has.

I tried to put the connection into binary mode but that doesn't work because
in.telnetd sits between mbsebbs and the internet.

My guess is that if syncterm sets binary mode most or all problems will be
fixed. Could you give me some ideas where I best could make the changes in
the syncterm source to try this?

If that works then the next plan could be that I write my own telnetd, or
use some other way to answer the telnet connections.




    Greetings, Michiel Broek

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