DOS ain't dead

Download from: http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/mTCP.html
Release notes: http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/mTCP_2022-07-01_Release_Notes.html

And here is the short version of what you can look forward to:

- Support for a local HOSTS.TXT file.
- Some minor DHCP bug fixes.
- TCP/IP library improvements for flow control on bad/slow connections.
- HTTP server bug fixes and proper support for default index.html files.
- A slightly more accurate SNTP (simple network time protocol) client.
- Proper Dynamic DNS support for the FTP server
- Other scattered bug fixes and small features.


As always, yell if you have problems ...

For the future - I'm working on proper Unicode support for IRCjr and Telnet. That will come along in a few months.


Mike

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I am very glad for this new version. The improvements seem to be very useful.

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What good news, Mike... Congratulations

From http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/

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2022-08-27: Even more Good news everyone! A new Telnet client is available!

This special version of the Telnet client adds support for rendering RLE graphics. View graphics files online right in the Telnet client like you are connected to Compuserve back in 1985 ...

See:

http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/mTCP_Telnet.html

Hi,

The new Telnet client with RLE graphics support is probably more interesting to retro-computing types and people interested in computing history. While the Telnet client is interesting, the real work was in documenting the RLE standard. That write-up can be found at http://www.brutman.com/RLE/RLE_Graphics.html. That page includes downloadable archives of RLEs too.

If you do get the new Telnet client, I've got a test server at brutman.com port 8086 that you can test against. Select an image and it will be sent to you and mTCP Telnet will draw it. If your Telnet client does support RLEs then you get just a stream of 7 bit printable ASCII characters.


-Mike

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I know you said this was before GIF was invented, but I do remember BBSes and interlaced GIFs, which I thought was a cool idea.

But I disagree that most shareware was good quality. There was tons of crippled and nagware software (remember NoNags?), way too many greedy people. I know software isn't cheap to develop, but it was highly frustrating to me. I once saw TDE offered as shareware (when originally it was public domain), so that was "fun"!

I am somewhat nostalgic about old tech and wish I could one day run my own BBS with retro hardware (but that will probably never happen). I think we all (now) could make it work and have fun. You know, hindsight is 20/20. Heck, I might even dual boot FreeDOS and Minix!

From http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/

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2022-10-04: An experimental DHCP client with a work-around for poorly behaved DHCP servers is available.


Some DHCP servers are not sending a HOSTNAME as a DHCP option, even if they honor the requested HOSTNAME. This leads mTCP to delete the HOSTNAME line in the configuration file, as it looks like the requested HOSTNAME was rejected and no HOSTNAME was assigned.

I've posted a new DHCP client with a work-around. I can't fix the broken DHCP servers, but at least the HOSTNAME line won't be deleted from the configuration file when this happens.

Download the new code at
http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/download/dhcp-2022-10-04.zip .

> From http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/
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> 2022-10-04: An experimental DHCP client with a work-around for poorly
> behaved DHCP servers is available.
>
>
> Some DHCP servers are not sending a HOSTNAME as a DHCP option, even if they
> honor the requested HOSTNAME. This leads mTCP to delete the HOSTNAME line
> in the configuration file, as it looks like the requested HOSTNAME was
> rejected and no HOSTNAME was assigned.
>
> I've posted a new DHCP client with a work-around. I can't fix the broken
> DHCP servers, but at least the HOSTNAME line won't be deleted from the
> configuration file when this happens.
>
> Download the new code at
> http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/download/dhcp-2022-10-04.zip.

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> > http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/download/dhcp-2022-10-04.zip .
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Forum included the trailing dot as part of the link, as moderator I went and edited the post to add a blank. This way the link works.

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> > > Download the new code at
> > > http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/download/dhcp-2022-10-04.zip .
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> > 404 not found
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> Forum included the trailing dot as part of the link, as moderator I went
> and edited the post to add a blank. This way the link works.

Another solution is to enclose the URL in {url}{/url} or {link}{/link}. (Replace curly braces with square ones.) See Welcome to "DOS ain't dead"!

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Thanks for mTcp!

> The new Telnet client with RLE graphics support is probably more
> interesting to retro-computing types and people interested in computing
> history.

... and persons who don't want use weechat
https://github.com/search?q=bbs

also https://www.bbsnetwork.io/

Seems BBS is far to death.

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Carthago delenda est, Ceterum censeo Carthaginem delendam esse.

> Thanks for mTcp!
>
> > The new Telnet client with RLE graphics support is probably more
> > interesting to retro-computing types and people interested in computing
> > history.
>
> ... and persons who don't want use weechat
> https://github.com/search?q=bbs
>
> also https://www.bbsnetwork.io/
>
> Seems BBS is far to death.

That last link is awful, and it has nothing to do with traditional BBS systems. The idea of using a crypto blockchain for forum postings to make them distributed and earn revenue is revolting.

Please, don't mention that kind of thing on an mTCP thread ... Or probably any retro computing thread.

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> > also https://www.bbsnetwork.io/
> >
> > Seems BBS is far to death.
>
> That last link is awful, and it has nothing to do with traditional BBS
> systems. The idea of using a crypto blockchain for forum postings to make
> them distributed and earn revenue is revolting.

So true! Few days ago I tried to understand, how it works and how to setup your own server, but there only limited information available (that I understand).

But Twitter, Facebook, ..., aren't better.

I found Hubzilla interesting, but it's too complex (for me).

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From http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/

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2023-01-02: An test version of mTCP that has a fix for bad TCP Explicit Congestion Notification is available.

There is a bug in the TCP library that affects newer machines using TCP ECN (Explicit Congestion Notification). If you try to connect to a machine running mTCP and you immediately get a TCP RESET you might be impacted by this bug. A test version of mTCP that fixes this bug can be found at

http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/download/mTCP_2023-01-02_ECN_fix.zip

Special thanks to Cebtenzzre for a great bug report.

> From http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/
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> 2023-01-02: An test version of mTCP that has a fix for bad TCP Explicit
> Congestion Notification is available.
>
> There is a bug in the TCP library that affects newer machines using TCP ECN
> (Explicit Congestion Notification). If you try to connect to a machine
> running mTCP and you immediately get a TCP RESET you might be impacted by
> this bug. A test version of mTCP that fixes this bug can be found at
>
> http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/download/mTCP_2023-01-02_ECN_fix.zip
>
> Special thanks to Cebtenzzre for a great bug report.


Don't get too excited - it's a minor fix for a very limited problem. I just hate it when I break obvious software engineering rules, like don't depend on the value of reserved bits ...

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