On 17 Feb 19  11:10:48, Ozz Nixon said the following to All:

ON> A couple nights ago, I was testing my terminal program, went to the Telnet 
ON> Guide, and worked my way through different BBS packages.
ON> 
ON> However, when I got to the Renegade 3 listings, two of them send the wrong 
ON>  handshake string.
ON> 
ON> It is supposed to be (based upon FTSC) **EMSI_REQ#### and I reply back
ON> **EMSI_INQ####. Instead these two BBSes sent **EMSI_INQ#### ... is this a B
ON> or is the FTSC wrong?

Good question. This is the code from Renegade Y2KA2 for EMSI.

procedure IEMSI;
var
  Tries:byte;
  T1,T2:longint;
  EMSI_IRQ:string[20];
  Done, Success:boolean;
  s,ISI:string;
  c:char;
  i:integer;
  buffer:array[1..2048] of char;
  buffptr:integer;
  u:userrec;
  NextItemPointer:integer;

  function NextItem:string;
  var s:astr;
  begin
    s := '';
    while (NextItemPointer < 2048) and (buffer[NextItemPointer] <> #0) and
      (buffer[NextItemPointer] <> '{') do
      inc(NextItemPointer);

    if (buffer[NextItemPointer] = '{') then
      inc(NextItemPointer);

    while (NextItemPointer < 2048) and (buffer[NextItemPointer] <> #0) and
      (buffer[NextItemPointer] <> '}') do
      begin
        s := s + buffer[NextItemPointer];
        inc(NextItemPointer);
      end;
    if (buffer[NextItemPointer] = '}') then
      inc(NextItemPointer);
    NextItem := s;
  end;

begin
  fillchar(IEMSIRec, sizeof(IEMSIRec), 0);
  if (Speed = 0) or (not General.useIEMSI) then exit;

  write('Attempting IEMSI negotiation ... ');
  fillchar(buffer, sizeof(buffer), 0);
  T1 := timer;
  T2 := timer;
  Tries := 0;
  Done := FALSE;
  Success := FALSE;
  EMSI_IRQ := '**EMSI_IRQ8E08'^M^L;
  com_flush_rx;
  SerialOut(EMSI_IRQ);
  s := '';

  repeat
    hangup := not com_carrier;
    if (abs(T1 - Timer) > 2) then
      begin
        T1 := Timer;
        inc(Tries);
        if (Tries >= 2) then
          Done := TRUE
        else
          begin
            com_flush_rx;
            SerialOut(EMSI_IRQ);
          end;
      end;
    if (abs(T2 - Timer) >= 8) then
      Done := TRUE;
    c := cinkey;
    if (c > #0) then
      begin
        if (length(s) >= 160) then
          delete(s, 1, 120);
        s := s + c;
        if (pos('**EMSI_ICI', s) > 0) then
          begin
            delete(s, 1, pos('EMSI_ICI',s) - 1);
            move(s[1], buffer[1], length(s));
            buffptr := length(s);
            T1 := Timer;
            repeat
              c := cinkey;
              if not (c in [#0, #13]) then
                begin
                  inc(buffptr);
                  buffer[buffptr] := c;
                end;
            until (hangup) or (abs(Timer - T1) > 4) or (c = ^M) or (buffptr = 
2048);
            s[0] := #8;
            move(buffer[buffptr - 7], s[1], 8);
            dec(buffptr, 8);
            if (s = Hex(UpdateCRC32($FFFFFFFF, buffer[1], buffptr), 8)) then
              begin
                loadurec(u, 1);
                ISI := '{Renegade,'+ver+'}{'+General.BBSName+'}{'+u.citystate+
                       '}{'+General.SysOpName+'}{'+Hex(getpackdatetime, 8)+
                       '}{Live free or die!}{}{Everything!}';
                ISI := 'EMSI_ISI'+Hex(length(ISI), 4) + ISI;
                ISI := ISI + Hex(UpdateCRC32($FFFFFFFF, ISI[1], length(ISI)), 
8);
                ISI := '**' + ISI + ^M;
                com_flush_rx;
                SerialOut(ISI);
                Tries := 0;  T1 := Timer;  s := '';
                repeat
                  if (abs(Timer - T1) >= 3) then
                    begin
                      T1 := Timer;
                      inc(Tries);
                      com_flush_rx;
                      SerialOut(ISI);
                    end;
                  c := cinkey;
                  if (c > #0) then
                    begin
                      if (length(s) >= 160) then
                        delete(s, 1, 120);
                      s := s + c;
                      if (pos('**EMSI_ACK', s) > 0) then
                        begin
                          com_flush_rx;
                          com_purge_tx;
                          Done := TRUE;
                          Success := TRUE;
                        end
                      else
                        if (pos('**EMSI_NAKEEC3', s) > 0) then
                          begin
                            com_flush_rx;
                            SerialOut(ISI);
                            inc(Tries);
                          end;
                    end;
                until (Tries >= 3) or (Done);
              end
            else
              begin
                SerialOut('**EMSI_NAKEEC3');
                T1 := Timer;
              end;
          end;
      end;
  until (Done) or (Hangup);
  if (Success) then
    begin
      writeln('success.');
      sl1('Successful IEMSI negotiation.');
    end
  else
    writeln('failure.');

  NextItemPointer := 1;

  with IEMSIRec do
    begin
      UserName := NextItem;
      Handle := NextItem;
      CityState := NextItem;
      ph := NextItem;
      s := NextItem;
      pw := allcaps(NextItem);
      i := value('$'+NextItem);
      if (i > 0) then
        bdate := pd2date(i);
    end;

  com_flush_rx;

end;

Nick

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