Subj : Clearing Houz Update BBS details
To   : Mindsurfer
From : deon
Date : Fri Aug 08 2025 11:30 pm

  Re: Clearing Houz Update BBS details
  By: Mindsurfer to deon on Fri Aug 08 2025 10:29 am

Howdy,

 > i also added
 > my data line number in the Clearing Houz web-interface, since i have an
 > analog modem connected. not sure if that needs extra flags. here is an
 > example connect string when connecting to that modem (CONNECT
 > 19200/ARQ/V32/LAPM/V42BIS). it is a 57600 USRobotics modem, but due to voip
 > limitations max speed should be at around 30000.

I dont recall if I have included the phone number in the nodelist segment updates each week (and I'm not near my system to check) - is it included?

I do know that I havent enabled any way of including modem flags (since most folks dont use modems anymore, I didnt bother with that part of the nodelist segment routines in clrghouz).

 > the modem connection will first show a screen that goes to the BBS (on port
 > 3023) after button F (for Funtopia) is pressed or if for 10 seconds no
 > button has been pressed, it will route the call to port 24554, to the
 > mailer. The analog modem connection to the mailer should work in theory but
 > is yet untested within a real mailer-call scenario.

Im not sure that this would work(?) - I'm not aware of any mailer that speaks binkp down an (unreliable) serial connection. (I use "unreliable" as line noise was always a problem with modems - and could be interpretted by 1 side as gibberish line data - but the modem transfer protocols had CRC's that detected that and triggered resends).

Thinking about it, some binkp implementations can include CRC checks (MBSE comes to mind) - I havent implemented that either in binkp (was planning on doing it, as there are some mailers that do CRC processing - I just havent figured it out, nor had time to figure it out).

That said, clrghouz does support EMSI/Zmodem - so if your modem answered to a zmodem mailer, then you could get mail that way (but that is also problematic, zmodem doesnt work well when 1 direction of comms is at a different speed to the other - which is often the problem with zmodem implmentations over TCP).


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