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Message   Mark Hofmann    Mark Lewis   Re: PD Zmodem   January 23, 2017
 1:04 PM *  

ml> FWIW: AFAIK, the entire telnet chain needs to be in binary mode for
ml> tunneled file transfers to work properly...
ml> 
ml> in other words, if there's five telnet hops between the user and the
ml> remote system, all five of those hops need to be initiated in binary
ml> mode...
ml> what do i mean by "telnet hops"? consider that you allow users to telnet
ml> out to other systems and those other systems also allow telnetting out...

Correct, that is exactly what is going on.  Even though I might be able to
force binary telnet mode on my BBS, the telnet session that Mystic kicks off to
 the BBS would also need to be set to binary mode.

Unfortunately, there is no control for that at the present time.

- Mark

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