Hi Rob,

it seems that the problems between syncterm and mbse are in the underlying
network part. Mbse uses the telnet links as 8 bit link, syncterm escapes
telnet control commands. I experimentyed with that too, but they two
programs still refuse to work together.

I did some more testing and made the following matrix:


                Mbsebbs       Synchronet    Concord      Mystic
                ------------- ------------- ------------ -------------
Dynacom-8 win   Ok            Ok            Error        Aborted
mtelnet win     Ok            Ok            Ok           Ok
Minicom Lnx     Ok            Ok            Ok           Ok (crc errors)
Syncterm lnx    Error         Ok            Ok           Aborted
TeraTerm win    Ok            Error         Ok           Error

All were tested with a large download using normal zmodem.

To me it seems there are probably tiny differences which break some
combinations. We may better not discuss Mystic, it's possible that there is
something wrong on the bbs side of that system, only mtelnet did ok without
errors, other programs finished ok with lots of crc errors or aborted on too
many crc errors.

Do you have any ideas what the real problem may be between these
incompatibilities?



    Greetings, Michiel Broek

Email:   mbse{at}mbse.dds.nl
Fidonet: Michiel Broek at 2:280/2802

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