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Punter protocol notes

Francesco Sblendorio edited this page Feb 14, 2019 · 6 revisions

Testing Punter protocol to download files, from Afterlife BBS.

Log into BBS, then select the D option (D for Download), then select 1 (the first file available for download). After receiving the message "START DOWNLOAD", do the following (it works also typing it "by hand"):

RECEIVER(c64) SENDER(bbs)
------------- -----------

= these first two interactions are not documented =
ACK
              GOO

= here starts the sequence described here https://tinyurl.com/y3kpgpcs =
GOO
              ACK
S/B
              [filetype packet, maybe 4bytes]

This also has an effect, but still don't know what extactly is:

RECEIVER(c64) SENDER(bbs)
------------- -----------
GOO
              GOO
S/B
              ACK
S/B
              ...???... [apparently random bytes]
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