Hi Rob,

Rob Swindell wrote to Michiel Broek:
RS>   Re: Re: KDE konsole
RS>   By: Michiel Broek to Rob Swindell on Thu Feb 23 2006 09:29 pm

RS>  > I got that part fixed, it was because that syncterm didn't start auto 
RS> zmodem
RS>  > download and my zmodem timed out before you could manually start the
RS>  > download.
RS> 
RS> It certainly *should* start auto-Zmodem download. What version of SyncTerm 

RS> are
RS> you using? Have you tried on any other BBSes (say, vert.synchro.net)?

It's version 0.6, I suppose it's the latest. I got it from
syncterm.bbsdev.net.


RS> 
RS>  > The characters seen were from the menu.
RS> 
RS> Yeah, that's what I suspected (ANSI escape sequence).
RS> 
RS>  > But it still doesn't work, but it does a bit more. The file header is
RS>  > exchanged and then syncterm doesn't get the file blocks. I suspect crc
RS>  > errors but the messages scroll away too fast.
RS>  > 
RS>  > Is there a better way to see syncterm's debug output?
RS> 
RS> Not currently. I'll see about adding some file logging of some sort.

That would be better. I think some usefull info is scrolled away every time
a block is sent.

RS>  > I also saw that it doesn't work with sz/rz and I know this is supposed 
RS> to
RS>  > work. It all could be something in the underlying ttyio drivers that 
RS> makes
RS>  > the two programs to refuse to work together.
RS> 
RS> cvs.synchro.net and nix.synchro.net are examples of systems that use 
RS> [l]sz/rz
RS> for Zmodem file transfers and you can telnet there with SyncTerm and up/
RS> download all day long.

Oke, something to try with my local sz/rz. The problem must be somewhere.


RS>  > Rob, is the zmodem in syncterm the same as the source in sbbs?
RS> 
RS> There actually is no Zmodem source in sbbs (all Telnet file transfers are
RS> implemented in external protocol drivers, ala sz/rz, fdsz, sexyz, etc.). 
RS> The
RS> zmodem code in SyncTerm *is* the same as the source in Sexyz however. And 
RS> Sexyz
RS> is in pretty wide-spread use now.

Okay, that's what I wanted to know.

RS>  > I only got a
RS>  > binary distribution of syncterm. I must confess that I didn't really 
RS> look if
RS>  > the source was available somewhere.
RS> 
RS> It is in the cvs.synchro.net respository, along side the source to 
RS> Synchronet
RS> and Sexyz.

Thanks for the info.

RS> 

    Greetings, Michiel Broek

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