Subj : Telnet and ZMODEM
To   : Arelor
From : Boraxman
Date : Fri May 01 2020 08:45 pm

  Re: Telnet and ZMODEM
  By: Arelor to Boraxman on Thu Apr 30 2020 04:49 pm

 >   Re: Telnet and ZMODEM
 >   By: Arelor to Boraxman on Thu Apr 30 2020 04:42 pm
 > 
 >  > I think "!" does not pipe the ouput from telnet into the program you are
 >  > calling.
 > 
 > To be clear, the way it is supposed to be done is for the BBS to feed your
 > terminal with a signal that it is ready to feed you a file. Then you are
 > supposed to attach "something" that understands X/Y/ZMODEM to your terminal 
 > it can read the file from it. Running rz in a subshell does not count as it.
 > Screen works because it actually reads an interpretates the content passed
 > through it.
 > 
I was wondering about that.  rz is somehow supposed to be able to tap into the
same connection as telnet, but how would it know what that is?

The problem is, I've seen specific instructions that show this method and state
it works.  Perhaps it only works for serial, or where telnet has a TTY.

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