Subj : Re: Housekeeping
To   : deon
From : Commodore Clifford
Date : Mon May 01 2023 11:46 pm

On 30 Apr 23  09:59:05 deon wrote...

DD>   Re: Re: Housekeeping   By: Commodore Clifford to deon on Sat Apr 29
DD> 2023 02:45 am
DD> 
DD>  > DD> Binkp is not the only used mail transfer mechanism. If you
DD>  > DD> want to do EMSI, I should be able to help with that. 
DD>  > 
DD>  > I thought we tried that extensively without success. :( 
DD> 
DD> We did?
DD> 
DD> Spectre uses EMSI quite successfuly - and I use it to my Portal of
DD> Power/Ezycom BBS as well. Both are EMSI/ZModem, not tried EMSI/Hydra.
DD> 
DD> One of the tricks with EMSI is whether the mailer is aware of telnet
DD> or not (or the fossil), since a "telnet" session needs to be handled
DD> correctly so that telnet IACs codes are not absorbed by the telnet
DD> session. (Only becomes an issue when transferring files.)
DD> 
DD> For that I have qico and ifcico running - qico does the EMSI/telnet
DD> and ifcico does the EMSI/TCP. Clrghouz only does EMSI/TCP as well.
DD> 
DD> If you wanted to have another go, we could debug it and figure out
DD> why it isnt working. It is unreliable though when using ZModem, since
DD> ZModem assumes and sync speed which is often not the case.
DD> 
DD> 
DD> 
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DD> ANSI+videotex - wanna play too? (21:2/116) 

To which Commodore Clifford replies...

Actually, yeah.... I need to sort out a couple other projects first, but
I'd like to try some other options.

I know there have been some extensive studies using the WiModem232 that
we use for file transfers.

Might be worth it.

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