Subj : Zmodem and "RAW"
To   : deon
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Jul 06 2023 11:59 am

  Re: Zmodem and "RAW"
  By: deon to Digital Man on Tue Jul 04 2023 03:42 pm

 >   Re: Zmodem and "RAW"
 >   By: Digital Man to deon on Mon Jul 03 2023 08:44 pm
 >
 >  >  > How to do it, I'm not sure, but a door author could write a door to do
 >  >  > it, so when you launch your door, it goes: bbs-> binary mode door ->
 >  >  > game
 >  >  > -> undo binary mode door -> bbs
 >
 >  > Telnet binary mode is not the same thing as Raw TCP. In Telnet binary
 >  > mode you still have to escape the IAC (0xFF) characters, but not in Raw
 >  > TCP mode.
 > Ahh, OK. So you need a shim of sorts? IE: Something to absorb 0xff and
 > escape it (and doing the telnet binary mode thing)...
 >
 > Thus, not an easy workaround..?

Simply absorbing 0xff wouldn't be enough either as there are a variable number of bytes that follow the 0xff that constitute the Telnet command(s).
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