This seemed to have something to do with our discussion, so I'm
forwarding it to you...  ;)   Particularly Mark's response at the end...

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 * Originally By: mark lewis
 * Originally To: Dale Shipp
 * Originally Re: packet sizes
 * Original Date: 10 Nov 09  19:49:55
 * Original Area: [Fido]- Cooking
 * Forwarded by : Blue Wave/DOS v2.20

 > There is no (Y)our Settings on the HTML version, just QWK settings
 > which doesn;'t allow changing the packet suze. and i haven't had a
 > telnet client for many years now so I can't get in that other way.

 CS> Start->run-> telnet://address

 DS> I tried that, and it almost worked for me.  I was able to log in,
 DS> get to the settings menu (I'm set for 4000/4000 messages) and read
 DS> bulletins. However, when it came time to download a QWK packet, it
 DS> put something at the bottom of the screen and then froze.  I
 DS> perhaps used to know, but have forgotten how to actually start to
 DS> receive the download -- or is that version of telnet brain dead
 DS> with respect to that aspect. 

FWIW: no version of telnet is "brain dead" WRT downloads...
telnet is a text
only medium... in the *nix world of telnet, you generally telnet in and then,
when you want to transfer binary files, you start sz (send zmodem) on that end
with the filename and then on your end, you may have to start rz (receive
zmodem) to actually get the file...

we, in the DOS world, are very spoiled in this aspect and are not used to using
seperate channels for file transfers (or much of anything else, for that
matter)...

)\/(ark

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So, it would appear that there is a zmodem for *nix?  

ttyl      neb

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