Hi Rob,


Rob Swindell wrote to Alan Ianson:
RS>   Re: Re: KDE konsole
RS>   By: Alan Ianson to Michiel Broek on Sat Feb 11 2006 10:08 am
RS> 
RS>  > Michiel Broek wrote to Alan Ianson:
RS>  > 
RS>  > MB> It seemed I had zmodem debug off here. What I did see
was that it 
RS> got a
RS>  > MB> timeout sending the filename (lowercase). Maybe syncterm can't 
RS> handle lo
RS>  > MB> and or lowercase filenames?
RS>  > MB>
RS>  > MB> Anyway, I will turn on the zmodem debug, so if you have
some time, 
RS> try i
RS>  > MB> again.
RS>  > 
RS>  > I just did, what I saw on my end was..
RS>  > 
RS>  > Warning: recv_header_raw: Expected ZDLE, Recieved: 27 (1Bh)
RS> 
RS> This indicates the BBS-side is sending an "ESC" character
(ASCII 27), when
RS> SyncTerm expected a ZDLE (Ctrl-X). The ESC is possibly part of an ANSI 
RS> escape
RS> sequence that MBSE is sending (instead of initiating a Zmodem file 
RS> transfer).
RS> 

Expecting a ZDLE in zmodem is strange, it should expect anything and
anything can be escaped with a ZDLE. Of course in this case it should
legally expect the zmodem header.


RS> 
RS> Admitedly, SyncTerm's logging facilities are rather weak, so you'll 
RS> probably
RS> need to use the log information from the server/BBS side to help diagnose 
RS> the
RS> file tranfser issue. If you set "Debug Transfers" to
"Yes" when editing 
RS> the
RS> dialing entry for your BBS in SyncTerm, that'll generate more debug
RS> information in SyncTerm, but it doesn't go to a file (when it scrolls, its
RS> gone).
RS> 
RS> We've verified SyncTerm compatibility with sz/rz, fdsz, cexyz, and the 
RS> Zmodem
RS> protocol drivers built into other BBS software (e.g. Wildcat), so I'm 
RS> curious
RS> as to this reported incompatibility with MBSE.

Here we have the problem, on mbse there's a buildin protocol but as leftover
from previous times it still supports external sz/rz that has been used for
years. I believe Alan tried sz/rz too.

This makes me realy wonder were the problem is. But if nothing from logs
helps, we can allways capture the IP trafic.

Yesterday I checked the sources of sexyz and mbse and didn't see anything
special in both versions. The only difference looks like sexyz is escaping
some more characters then mbse, but that should not be a problem.

I just downloaded syncterm here, maybe later in the weekend I can check some
things on the lan here.




    Greetings, Michiel Broek

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

... OK, I'm confused.  More than normal, that is.

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