Subj : Wifi232 on a retro PC
To   : KARU
From : Marceline Jones
Date : Sat Feb 20 2021 08:07 pm

 Ka> No such luck. I was able to see what Qmodem thinks it was doing, and
 Ka> while th :23 is optional, what's actually getting dialed when I call
 Ka> for "vert.synchro.net" is something like "vrt.syncr.nt:23" 
 > Maybe yours has a similar feature?

Qmodem is interpreting AT commands while dialing from its phone book (ie. "e", "h", "o" are all Hayes compatible commands which is why the dialer interprets them as invalid digits). However when Qmodem is in command mode, no translation occurs (as expected (which allows people to customise a dial sequence such as "AT H0E0V1 DT vert.synchro.net:23" (ie. attention, onhook, echo off, verbose result codes, dialtone, number))).

You will need to use some kind of translation table to convert a phone number to a DNS or IP address (this must be supported by the modem device you are using).

I conduct all my BBS activities in Oracle VirtualBox and use virtual modems (eg. COM/IP and NetSerial). 

COM/IP uses an prescribed telephone number format that does the translation (eg. "71.95.196.34:23" can be aliased as "07109519603400023" (ie. zero-padded octets with zero-padded 5-digit port suffix)).

NetSerial can be configured to use a translation table (eg. "c:\bbs\phone_book.txt"):

=====================================
719519634,vert.synchro.net,23
=====================================

will interecept any ATD (dial) command for "719519634" and make the necessary string substitutions.

 Ka> Only thing to figure out is why all the terminal apps seem to think
 Ka> I'm "offline" even after successfully calling out. It's probably
 Ka> something silly like DSR/DTR not being configured or asserted. 
 Ka> Either way, ty for the pointer. Glad to see the man behind Sync is
 Ka> still aroun :)

Try including "&C1&D2" in your modem initialisation string ("&C1" - DCD signal to indicate the true state of the remote carrier signal; "&D2" - causes the modem to close an active connection and return to command mode when the DTR signal is changed from ON to OFF).

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