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

 SD> He was using the ANSI emulation.

FWIW: there is a difference between ANSI and ANSI-BBS terminal codes... i 
don't remember what it is exactly but there is one... the original DOS
version of Telix includes both so i suppose if i had to know this
difference, i could compare those two...

 MvanL> I've had problems uploading files to Bob Jone's Tophat BBS 
 MvanL> where mTel would crash and/or disconnect and/or hang the 
 MvanL> Zmodem transfer after 100% progress; but the BBS never 
 MvanL> crashed.

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

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

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

in some cases, i've seen problems disappear when one moved from a small
pipeline to a larger one... that would tend to point to some software being
a bit more lienient in the timing loops... i remember that some work was
done in those areas in the mailer and bbs software i run... those loops
were relaxed quite a bit so that they would be more reliable when used in
congested pipes...

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