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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: Telnet CR-LF translation problems
Date: 9 Nov 1994 02:24:19 GMT
Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT
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References: <39av5l$h2s@golf.ustores.missouri.edu> <KSTAILEY.94Nov5145342@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> <CytttM.EE7@usenews.nrlssc.navy.mil>
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In article <CytttM.EE7@usenews.nrlssc.navy.mil> beck@nrlssc.navy.mil (Jeff Becklehimer) writes:
] : >I've been trying to perform Telnet Zmodem transfers.
] 
] : Why on earth would anybody need to do this?
] 
] : Do you know what ftp is?
] 
] : Ken
] 
] One guess is that places like Compu$erve allow you to telnet in but they
] don't allow ftp.

Chuck Foresburg blew the option negotiation in the public Zmodem.  It
(incorrectly) uses binary characters to negotiate whether or not it
is allowed to use binary characters.

Use Kermit instead, or buy the commercial Zmodem implementation from
Chuck directly at Omen Technologies, Inc.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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