I decided to try looking at a BBS again (as one does) and being the beginner I still am, I discovered a
problem: whenever I start a download over ZMODEM, Konsole picks up, says lrzsz-rz is listening, asks me for adirectory to save into and then proceeds to receive timeouts only.

The telnet window meanwhile contains only the B000(...) code. Im a beginner so I dont exactly know how to fixthis, but if anyone has an idea where could the problem be Id be glad.

Right, I forgot to mention, if I select XMODEM or YMODEM, nothing appears (not even the B000(...) line).

I use: Konsole terminal emulator, telnet for connection and have lrzsz installed.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions,
Gabriel

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Re: ZMODEM timeout
By: G4br13l to All on Sun Oct 19 2025 06:06 pm

I decided to try looking at a BBS again (as one does) and being the beginner I still am, I discovered a problem: whenever I start a download over ZMODEM, Konsole picks up, says lrzsz-rz is listening, asks me for adirectory to save into and then proceeds to receive timeouts only.

The telnet window meanwhile contains only the B000(...) code. Im a beginner so I dont exactly know how to fixthis, but if anyone has an idea where could the problem be Id be glad.

Right, I forgot to mention, if I select XMODEM or YMODEM, nothing appears (not even the B000(...) line).

I use: Konsole terminal emulator, telnet for connection and have lrzsz installed.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions,

I suggest you use a terminal program designed for BBS use and integrated X/Y/ZMODEM support, like SyncTERM.
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Re: ZMODEM timeout
By: G4br13l to All on Sun Oct 19 2025 06:06 pm

I decided to try looking at a BBS again (as one does) and
being the beginner I still am, I discovered a problem: whenever
I start a download over ZMODEM, Konsole picks up, says lrzsz-rz
is listening, asks me for adirectory to save into and then proceeds
to receive timeouts only.

so it's not working and there's tons of telnet clients to pick from out
there.

what do you think you should do?
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Re: ZMODEM timeout
By: G4br13l to All on Sun Oct 19 2025 18:06:53

The telnet window meanwhile contains only the B000(...) code. Im a beginner so I dont exactly know how to fixthis, but if anyone has an idea where could the problem be Id be glad.

Sounds like you have a ghost in the machine. ;)

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Re: ZMODEM timeout
By: Digital Man to G4br13l on Sun Oct 19 2025 08:01 pm

I suggest you use a terminal program designed for BBS use and integrated X/Y/ZMODEM support, like SyncTERM.

Yeah.... of course that worked. At least I finally have a good software suite for connecting though. It always bugged
me a bit that your standard telnet client could connect to a BBS, do most of the stuff but then lack the download feature.

Obviously, with UNIX philosophy (do one thing and do it well) it doesnt make much sense, but it was weird to me that it didnt
really work well even if all of the small programs got installed. Well I guess I could chain them together manually but...

Anyways, thanks!

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