ML> What about using ANSI-BBS emulation on the client ?

 SD> He was using the ANSI emulation.

I mentioned ANSI-BBS because that's a separate emulation option under Telix
(ANSI vs. ANSI-BBS) so there's probably a difference.

[...]

 ML> My guess is some problem with Vmodem ... but we never verified that
 ML> theory (or investigated further).

 SD> It's a bug in mTel.  mTel's kinda notorious for its 
 SD> Zmodem and ANSI problems (it'll work with some boards, 
 SD> not with others).  It's enough to make me investigate 
 SD> writing my own telnet client in Pascal (not that I 
 SD> really have time to do it, but it'd certainly be 
 SD> interesting).  I dislike that the author doesn't bother 
 SD> to work on mTel any further, but that's another story.

Most authors of anything BBS related are old and resentful these days.
Probably never got paid enough for their work, and eventually realising
their skills are easily eclipsed and outpaced by any undergraduate. They
don't seem to have the same enthusiasm compared to BBS users / sysops,
probably because it was a business for them which in this day and age is
inevitably unviable.

Nobody pays for WildCat/WorldGroup or Excalibur etc. - it's a lost cause.
So they just give up and move on or become resentful and bitter and whinge
about how unjust and unfair life is and then die.

 SD> I'm having the same problems you did with uploads 
 SD> though, with mTel.  Using Hyperterminal or Zap-O-Comm, no problems.

There's also SyncTerm. I think it's free.

[...]

 ML> What about under Maximus/DOS ?

 SD> Never used Maximus/DOS.  Only Maximus/2. :)

I don't understand why are there so many Maximus/2 SysOps; when all the
doors were made for DOS.

mTel works fine for me with Maximus/DOS. Atleast on the LAN. Not sure how
reliable it is over the internet when packet loss becomes an issue.

--- Maximus/2 3.01