Hello to All,
I have a tiny little question that's related to something I saw earlier on Diamond Mine BBS. While doing my normal things on there, a message popped up on the screen that said "so and so logged on using "RAW". I looked and mine said Telnet (as it should be), but what is "RAW"?
Re: Raw or is it RAW ?
By: Dennis Scott to All on Sun Mar 12 2023 01:24 pm
Hello to All,
I have a tiny little question that's related to something I saw earlier o Diamond Mine BBS. While doing my normal things on there, a message popped on the screen that said "so and so logged on using "RAW". I looked and mi said Telnet (as it should be), but what is "RAW"?
Raw TCP, not Telnet, not RLogin, just plain ole TCP.
Re: Raw or is it RAW ?
By: Digital Man to Dennis Scott on Sun Mar 12 2023 02:07 pm
Re: Raw or is it RAW ?
By: Dennis Scott to All on Sun Mar 12 2023 01:24 pm
Hello to All,
I have a tiny little question that's related to something I saw earlier o Diamond Mine BBS. While doing my normal things on there, a message popped on the screen that said "so and so logged on using "RAW". I looked and mi said Telnet (as it should be), but what is "RAW"?
Raw TCP, not Telnet, not RLogin, just plain ole TCP.
So Raw probably means that person is on the same local TCIP network as the BBS, ie, a local user?
Raw TCP, not Telnet, not RLogin, just plain ole TCP.
So Raw probably means that person is on the same local TCIP network as the BBS, ie, a local user?
No, not at all. More likely the user is just using some retro hardware or software that doesn't support Telnet.
Re: Raw or is it RAW ?
By: Digital Man to Dennis Scott on Sun Mar 12 2023 05:26 pm
Raw TCP, not Telnet, not RLogin, just plain ole TCP.
So Raw probably means that person is on the same local TCIP network as the BBS, ie, a local user?
No, not at all. More likely the user is just using some retro hardware or software that doesn't support Telnet.
What type of retro hardware could that be?
Sorry, I'm just trying to learn
here and I can't find anywhere online that tells of such things.
The BBS is connected to a switch connected to a router connected to the internet. So what hardware/software would allow passage of TCP thru all of that without using telnet via TCPIP.
Anything that passes Telnet traffic through will pass raw TCP too, in fact they're often confused with each other. Telnet is only barely any different from raw TCP.
So Raw probably means that person is on the same local TCIP network as theBS,
ie, a local user?
Syncterm allows you to specify RAW as a connection type to call a telnet
BBS with. I always suggest that people try RAW, if their terminal client supports it, when calling my older DOS BBS. Otherwise, they may run into issues with double carriage returns and/or on file transfers.
Telnet (as it should be), but what is "RAW"?
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