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to: MARK HOFMANN
from: DEON GEORGE
date: 2020-06-18 15:17:00
subject: Question for telnet/BBS g

  Re: Question for telnet/BBS gurus.
  By: Mark Hofmann to All on Wed Jun 17 2020 06:04 pm

 MH> Have a question for the telnet gurus out there.  Trying to get to the
 MH> bottom of why file transfers (using any serial based protocol) don't work
 MH> on my OS/2 SIO based BBS nodes via a double telnet.

It would probably be because one of the (telnet) streams (or both), are not put
into "binary mode" - and thus the telnet client or server is interpreting some
of the binary chars that would be sent.

As per the wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telnet

"Another difference between Telnet and other TCP terminal clients is that
Telnet is not 8-bit clean by default. 8-bit mode may be negotiated, but octets
with the high bit set may be garbled until this mode is requested, as 7 bit is
the default mode."

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