No, unless the board is configured differently. You would use the QWK
menu, via your telnet session, to configure your packet options and choose the areas you want scanned.
Once you have done that, to download your QWK packet from that synchronet board, you would just use the ftp client to connect to the board's url address (i.e. vert.synchro.net) and then 'get VERT.QWK'. The BBS will create a packet for you and send it.
To send up REP packets, you just 'put VERT.REP' and the board will know
what to do with it.
If your ftp client doesn't support passive, it might present some issues
If your telnet client supports zmodem downloads
Not internally. It can shell to DOS though. Maybe DOS rz/sz if there is such a
thing.
Yep, IIRC, Zmodem started as a DOS transfer protocol. There is DSZ (the official one) and a few other DOS-compatable Zmodem executables, like pdzmodem.
My first QWK packet was corrupted. Guess I forgot to set FTP binary
mode before transferring. Second try much better.
It said "no packet, no new messages". But after logging off telnet, then the FTP transfer worked. Won't need the telnet step once I get a cycle started. I like that.
I think that's meant to preserve your new scan pointers.
Seems like the FTP new scan is locked out while I'm logged in via
telnet. Not sure if that's true but it would make sense.
It should work just like interfacing with any other ftp server.
My first QWK packet was corrupted. Guess I forgot to set FTP binary
mode before transferring. Second try much better.
Sorry, I forgot to mention the 'binary' step when I was going over how it works. Some ftp clients don't need it but others seem to. I usually try
to remember to do it just in case!
Jcurtis wrote to POINDEXTER FORTRAN <=-
Seems like the FTP new scan is locked out while I'm logged in via telnet. Not sure if that's true but it would make sense.
I can confirm - I use FTP every day and if I'm logged in, the FTP
session doesn't detect any new messages to pack.
My first QWK packet was corrupted. Guess I forgot to set FTP binary
mode before transferring. Second try much better.
The Synchronet FTP server *only* supports binary mode, so something else is u
Use &W from the terminal server (default command shell) to save your message pointers before you download the QWK packet via FTP.
Yep, IIRC, Zmodem started as a DOS transfer protocol. There is DSZ (the official one) and a few other DOS-compatable Zmodem executables, like pdzmodem.
ZMODEM actually started as a file transfer tool/protocol for UNIX, not DOS (an
incremental improvement over YMODEM by Chuck Forsberg) - the program was calle
'sz' (for send zmodem) and 'rz' (for receive zmodem) and then later Chuck created DSZ (DOS Send ZMODEM, which does both the send and receive in the same
executable). Then FDSZ (FOSSIL DSZ) and GSZ (Graphical SZ for DOS) and other variants (proYamm and what not). RIP Chuck.
receive in the same executable). Then FDSZ (FOSSIL DSZ) and GSZ (Graphical SZ for DOS) and other variants (proYamm and what not). RIP Chuck.I remember my Carolina Blue floppy tht ProYamm camed on. Loved his programs.
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