TKermitFTP

From: Joe R. <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Tue Jan 4 12:23:26 2005

At 10:59 PM 1/3/05 -0600, you wrote:
>At 02:20 PM 1/3/2005, Scott Stevens wrote:
>>Can't the plain old DOS copy command be used in the same fashion, i.e.:
>>
>>MODE COM1:9600,N,8,1,P
>>COPY COM1 filename.exe
>>
>>entered at the 'receiving' system (at the right points in time)
>
>If the program binary sent over the serial line didn't include
>any characters that were eaten or rejected by COPY, and it
>ended with a CTRL/Z and COPY stopped there, it would work,
>wouldn't it?

  It should. However COPY will normally stop when it hits a CTRL/Z. (And
many files have CTRL/Zs in them other than the EOF.) HOWEVER there is a
switch that you can use to make COPY copy the entire file length regardless
of the preense of embedded CTRL/Zs. I don't remember what the switch is
but it should be easy to find out.

   Joe



>
>This reminds me of the constraints on today's exploits and code
>injection techniques: "write a series of three progressive
>exploits and loaders that fit in 64, 256 and 512 bytes,
>respectively, and do not contain any zeroes."
>
>At 02:37 PM 1/3/2005, Tom Jennings wrote:
>>Hell, with debug you could WRITE the program to input the file
>>in binary! We're talking MSDOS, right? Not Windows?
>>You can type this crap directly into debug, "aXXXX".
>
>Go for it, Skippy! When it's debugged and tested, ship it! :-)
>As the hex to enter into DEBUG.
>
>You're right - the program for this would be small enough to
>fit in the margin of a FAQ. "Load and run from the serial port."
>
>- John
>
>
Received on Tue Jan 04 2005 - 12:23:26 GMT