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zmdm.doc, v1.6 ++jrb ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ZMDM was derived from rz/sz for Unix posted by Chuck Forsberg (...!tektronix!reed!omen!caf ). We thank him for his excellent code, and for giving us permission to use and distribute his code and documentation. The code for detecting baud rate at startup is courtesy of Brian Katzung (katzung@laidbak.UUCP). Thanks very much! Andy Nicola did a lot of testing of the new features. Thank You very much! Thanks to the many users on the net who wrote in. It is possible to run @38.4K or higher baud rates, the changes for this are simple. however, not all ST's run reliably at those rates, so i left those options out. The phones module is totally compatible with our earlier program xmdm, so phone directories created with xmdm can be used with zmdm. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Enhancements since V1.67 o CPS reporting has changed. cps now is the effective cps, on receive it includes the time to write the file. on send it is the file send time (including read time). note: on send the effective cps can be higher than the baud rate can possible send. this discrepancy is because of buffering. o increased send buffer size o minor bug fixes Enhancements since V1.64 o Updated protocol o fixed some long/short int problems (due to strlen being size_t for gcc lib) o cursor is not turned on automatically. if you are running this from the desktop and want the cursor turned on, name the executable files with .tos or .ttp extensions. o hi-rez toggle is preserved (ie: if you changed it within zmdm, it is restored on exit). Note: autowrap, and screen color inversion are not preserved on purpose. if you want to change that just look in main.c. o Bug: still does not understand the concept of daylight saving time, so the St files will be an hour behind when downloaded. (also note: there are some versions of this program munged by someone else, floating around on various BBS that totaly screw up date/time/protection. Settle only for the origonal!) o Newer versions of TurboSt seem to live well with the 50 line mode. QuickSt also seems to be fine. Enhancements since V1.64: o accept an optional command line arguement for default phone directory file name. If not found or is not specified, then it looks for the environment variable "PHONE". If found it will use it, otherwise the first time it tries to use a phone directory, it'll prompt for a filename. o Stderr now should go to screen. This fix is in the gnu library and not in zmdm per se. (this also will enable people to run the standalone programs from flash etc). This program is supposedly incompatible with Shadow. I dont have shadow, so i dont know what the incompatibilities are, however this program uses standard Tos calls for everything, and works under all versions of Tos, so i suspect the problem is with Shadow. o check in under RCS (internal change). Enhancements since V1.62: (last Usenet release). o Now looks for environment variable "PHONE" for default phone directory file name. If found it will be opened. o Gnu C compiler added. Requires V1.35 or better. Enhancements since V1.2: o Some cleanup, moved common things around. Some cosmetic additions. o MWC 3.0 compatible. The sample MW makefiles reflect the setup required for MWC V 3.0.6. o Manx Aztec C compatible. Tested with V 3.6a of the compiler. Produces the smallest code of all the compilers tested. See config.h, makefile.man and makefman.sta. CAUTION: for MegaST and 4Meg ST owners-- The Manx Version will not work correctly for you due to a bug in the start up file -- we are still trying to figure out exactly what the problem is! o Auto Baud Rate detection on startup: Previously ZMDM would set the baud rate to a compile time configurable rate on startup (it needed to know the baud rate to determine its default packet size). Thanks to code contributed by Brian Katzung, now it detects the baud rate on startup. Of course you can set the baud rate within ZMDM (by hitting '<HELP>' 'b' ). o Compile time option to use all available memory as recv/send buffer. See DYNABUF, LEAVEALONE and MINACC preprocessor symbols in config.h. If you prefer to use a fixed size buffer, this is still possible by not #define'ing DYNABUF and setting BBUFSIZ. MegaST OK - thanks Andy Nicola. o Stand Alone versions of RZ and SZ can be made by compiling the sources with the preprocessor symbols 'STANDALONE' #define'ed. See the makefile 'MAKEFILE.STA' for more details. Stand Alone versions DO NOT do any command line argument expansions for wild cards or directories (unlike the integrated ZMDM). Stand Alone versions tested from within Gulam, Flash and Intersect. Thanks to Andy Nicola for testing these features. o Remote versions of ZMDM, RZ and SZ can be made by compiling the sources with the preprocessor symbol 'REMOTE' #define'ed. A remote version listens and does all its I/O thru the serial port. Of course it has to be fired up from console. One of our area BBS's provides this as a D/L option, where the BBS program execs a remote ZMDM, and one you exit you return back to the BBS program. o Added -B (note: uppercase B) option to both RZ and SZ. the -B function is a binary mode override, that disregards the extension when deciding the transfer mode. This is useful when say you are backing up your whole disk to say a Unix host. (backup the exact image of the files), or doing St-to-St type transfers. o Now compatible with the PD DLIB library. The pre-processor symbol DLIBS must be defined. Only tested with the Alcyon version of the library. o Added the phone module (a simple dialer with a telephone numbers directory). This module is only compiled in if the preprocessor symbol 'PHONES' is #define'ed. For those of you who are familiar with XMDM, this module was directly ripped out of there, with a small bug fix that prevented it from running under TurboSt.ACC. o Long packet lengths now allowed at slower baud rates rather than insisting on using the default as the max packet length. For instance sz -l 1024 files.. will now send 1024 byte packets at low baud rates (<= 2400). The corresponding change has been made to the unix end of the software too. o TurboSt.ACC note: The high rez toggle (25/50 lines) on a monochrome monitor will NOT work is TurboSt.ACC is installed. The problem is on the TurboSt.ACC end. Using the high rez toggle does'nt cause any ill-effect, it just does not do anything. Enhancements since V1.0: o (This enhancement is only present when you compile with the pre-processor symbol `RECURSE' defined - see the makefile's) sz now takes a directory as an argument. If the name of a directory is given as an argument, then the contents of that directory and all its subdirectories are sent. A new option to sz is '-P <dir or file>' (capital 'P' not 'p'), that 'prunes' the expansion of a directory. For example if you wanted to send all the files in the 'C' partition of your hard disk, except the 'tmp', 'usr' and 'foo\bar' subdirectories, you would issue the following command in the transfer shell: sz -f -P c:\tmp -P c:\usr -P c:\foo\bar c:\ Notice that you may specify multiple -P 'rune options. The argument to the -P option may also be the name of a file that you want to prune off. Also note that to send full path names to the remote end, the '-f' option is required, otherwise the remote end will create all the files in its current working directory. (Also see CWRU extension to Unix 'rz', where 'rz' when receiving full path names (ie. when you specify the '-f' option to sz on the ST end) will create all subdirectories required to receive the file). The ST 'rz' always creates all subdirectories required to receive a path when the other end is sz'ing with the '-f' option. Also note that in both the rz's all subdirectories are created relative to the current working directory, even though the path may specify an absolute path. o File name mapping is slightly changed from V1.0. When receiving a filename that has multiple '.'s all but the last '.' is replace with an '_'. So 'foo.bar.ext' becomes 'foo_bar.ext'. Similarly '123.456.789\aaa.bbb.ccc' becomes '123_456.789\aaa_bbb.ccc'. As in V1.0, the filename and extension (of each component of a path name) are truncated to 8 and 3 characters respectively. So '123.456789.ext\foobarbaz' becomes '123_4567.ext\foobarba'. Also note that while sending, '\'s are sent as '/'s. The ST drive specifier part of a path name is never sent. So 'c:\file.ext' is sent as '/file.ext' (remember: that full pathnames are only sent when the '-f' option is specified to 'sz'). o Many bug fixes since V1.0! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zmdm consists of two main components: o The terminal emulator o The transfer shell - The terminal emulator emulates a 80*25 terminal (or optionally the 80*50 mode on Mono systems only). It uses the escape codes of the bios built in enhanced vt52 emulator. For UN*X users i have included the termcap entry that we use. - The transfer shell lets you send/receive files using Xmodem/Xmodem-CRC/Xmodem-1K/Ymodem or Zmodem protocols. In addition it provides UN*X csh like command for your convenience, and does (TOS style) wild-card handling, and (only single) quoting of arguments. Please note that this is a convenience feature, and in no way does it pretend to be compatible with csh or any other shell. See the accompanying file YMODEM.DOC by Chuck Forsberg, for details of the above transfer protocols. This note describes the commands available from the "transfer shell". The transfer shell is the built in command line interface. In case you are wondering why we choose to use a command line interface, the answer is quite simple. The functions available have so many options and combinations thereof, that it would be totally impractical if not impossible to put them in menus/dialogues (each menu will have to be at least 3 levels deep). Of course it is much easier to type something like 'sz -l 128 -L 128 *.c' than answering the at least three dialogues required to pick up the same info. You enter the transfer shell from the terminal emulator by hitting <HELP> and choosing 'T' from the main menu. Once you are done using the transfer shell, you simply hit <RETURN> to pop back into the terminal emulator, exactly where you left off. This program was written primarily for situations where you are connected to remote hosts either directly or via modems. The timing and error parameters are NOT suitable for hosts such as CompuServe etc, where there may large delays or your phone line is noisy. We distributed a program called XMDM earlier that is very tolerant of delays/noisy lines and has been used very successfully for BBS'ing around the country. XMDM has conveniences such as dialing directories etc for that purpose. If you have a old version of XMDM ( < V1.8) that does not have dialing directories etc, please mail me for a new copy. ZMDM has been tested in the following ways: 1) Between two ST's running ZMDM. 19200 Baud no problem! 2) With unix sz/rz running on a BSD4.3 on Vaxen. 3) With unix sz/rz running on Apollo Dn330/Dn300 under Aegis and Domain IX (over a siologin line). 4) With unix sz/rz running on a Sun under SunOS. 6) With an Ibm At running Procomm using Ymodem/Xmodem. 7) With ForemSt bbs, with the BBS sending in Ymodem batch mode. (note: ForemSt bbs's do not take batch uploads - Matt Singer are you listening??) 8) With a Mac running MicroPhone using Ymodem mode. 9) With an Intel 210 box running Xenix (yech!). UNIX users please note: If the load on your system is high, the UNIX tty driver drops characters when receiving at 9600 or higher baud rates. There are two ways around this problem: - use shorter packet and frame lengths using the `-l' and `-L' options of SZ. For examples `sz -l 128 -L 128 files...' work most of the time at 9600/19200 baud without any problem. - reduce your baud rate to 4800 baud. Normally the first solution works fine, but if you have an extraordinarily loaded machine (or are running on a brain damaged 750 with DZ11's), then 4800 baud works better. - Those who have 3b2 boat anchors, the tty driver (at least on the boxes we have) is totally useless over 1200 baud. ----- NAME rb, rz - XMODEM, YMODEM, ZMODEM (Batch) file receive SYNOPSIS rz [-Bepqtvw] rb [-pqtv] rz [-cqtv] file DESCRIPTION This program uses error correcting protocol to receive files over a serial port from a variety of programs running under TOS, PC-DOS, CP/M, Unix, and other operating systems. The first form of rz (Receive ZMODEM) receives files with the ZMODEM batch protocol. If the sending program does not support ZMODEM, rz steps down to YMODEM protocol after 50 seconds. This delay can be eliminated by calling the pro- gram as rb . When receiving with XMODEM or YMODEM, Rz accepts either standard 128 byte sectors or 1024 byte sectors (YAM -k option). The user should determine when the longer block length actually improves throughput without causing prob- lems. If extended file information (file length, etc.) is received, the file length controls the number of bytes writ- ten to the output dataset (YMODEM only), and the modify time and file mode (iff non zero) are set accordingly. A special feature of the ST implementation is that if the remote end sends full path names (-f option of sz) all required directories will be automatically created on the ST end. The directories will be rooted at the current directory and not at the root level. The second form of rz receives a single file with XMODEM protocol. The user must supply the file name to both send- ing and receiving programs. When rz is invoked, Verbose is set to 2, causing frame by frame progress reports to stderr. This may be disabled with the q option. The meanings of the available options are: B (ZMODEM) force all files to be received in binary mode. Useful for ST-to-ST transfers (for Ascii files where you don't want LF to CRLF conversion). This is a local override, specifying `-B' overrides any mode the sender specifies (it however will still honor any `protect' or `append' requests from the sender) (Applicable to ZMODEM transfers only). c Request 16 bit CRC. XMODEM file transfers default to 8 bit checksum. YMODEM and ZMODEM normally use 16 bit CRC. p (ZMODEM) Protect: skip file if destination file exists. q Quiet suppresses verbosity. t tim Change timeout to tim tenths of seconds. v Verbose, more v's give more verbose. Info is also appended to logfile 'rzlog' . More v's generate more output. e Escape control characters (Z) w N Window is N bytes (Z) -- control receive window size ZMODEM CAPABILITIES Rz supports incoming ZMODEM binary (-b), ASCII (-a), protect (-p), and append (-+) requests, and ZMODEM command execu- tion. The incoming mode may be optionally overriden by specifying the `-B' option to Rz, in which case all files will be received in binary mode regardless of the incoming mode (protect and append will still be obeyed). Rz also supports incoming pathnames, and will recursively create all subdirectories as required. Rz preserve file mod times, and file protection. The translation of Unix protection bits to ST file attributes is based on the Unix owner (07XX) protection bits. Presently, only read and write bits are considered. All received pathnames are considered to be rooted at the current working directory. Any leading '/' from unix systems is discarded (ie. all incoming pathnames are considered unrooted, and are locally 'planted' at the current working directory). Ascii/Binary file modes are determined by examining the file extension on the incoming path name. If the extension is one of the following (case independent), then it is assumed to be a binary file, ascii other wise. The ascii translation of '\n' to '\r\n' is done locally for ZMODEM (only). For X or Y modem the sender determines the file type (see the file 'common.c' for the latest list). ".PRG", ".TOS", ".TTP", ".ARC", ".ACC", ".IMG", ".RSC", ".O", ".OBJ", ".NEO", ".PIC", ".PI1", ".PI2", ".PI3", ".PQ1", ".PQ2", ".PQ3", ".BRD", ".ANI", ".STW", ".FNT", ".PRT", ".SNG", ".NEC", ".CNF", ".Z" , ".DFN", ".GEM", ".EZD", ".LNK", ".SYM", ".PIX", ".X32", ".OUT", ".A", ".CCC", ".CL", ".CMD", ".COM", ".CRL", ".DAT", ".DIR", ".EXE", ".OVL", ".PAG", ".REL", ".SAV", ".SUB", ".SWP", ".SYS", ".TAR", ".UTL", ".IM", ".PAK", ".ZOO" RZ/SZ(1) ST Programmer's Manual RZ/SZ(1) NAME sz SYNOPSIS sz [-+BdefkLlNnopqtuwvy][-P <directory of file>]* file ... sz -X [-kqtuv] file sz [-oqtv] -c COMMAND sz [-oqtv] -i COMMAND DESCRIPTION Sz uses the ZMODEM, YMODEM or XMODEM error correcting proto- col to send one or more files over a serial port to a variety of programs running under PC-DOS, CP/M, Unix, VMS, TOS and other operating systems. The first form of sz sends one or more files with ZMODEM or YMODEM batch protocol. Normally, only the file name part of the pathname is transmitted. Additional information about the file is transmitted. If the receiving program uses this information, the transmitted file length controls the exact number of bytes written to the output dataset, and the modify time and file mode are set accord- ingly. The second form of sz uses the -X flag to send a single file with XMODEM or XMODEM-1k protocol. The user must supply the file name to both sending and receiving programs. The third form sends a single COMMAND to the receiver for execution. Sz exits with the COMMAND return value. The fourth form sends a single COMMAND to the receiver for execution. Sz exits as soon as the receiver has correctly received the command, before it is executed. In SZ Verbose is set to 2, causing frame by frame pro- gress reports to stderr. This may be disabled with the q option. The meanings of the available options are: + Instruct the receiver to append transmitted data to an existing file (ZMODEM only). B (ZMODEM) force all files to be sent in binary mode. Useful for ST-to-ST transfers (for Ascii files where you don't want LF to CRLF conversion). (Applicable to ZMODEM transfers only). c COMMAND Send COMMAND to the receiver for execution, return with COMMAND's exit status. d Change all instances of "." to "/" in the transmitted pathname. Thus, C.omenB0000 (which is unacceptable to MSDOS or CP/M) is transmitted as C/omenB0000. If the resultant filename has more than 8 characters in the stem, a "." is inserted to allow a total of eleven. e Escape all control characters; normally XON, XOFF, CR- @-CR, and Ctrl-X are escaped. f Send Full pathname. Normally directory prefixes are stripped from the transmitted filename. i COMMAND Send COMMAND to the receiver for execution, return Immediately upon the receiving program's successful reception of the command. k (XMODEM/YMODEM) Send files using 1024 byte blocks rather than the default 128 byte blocks. 1024 byte packets speed file transfers at high bit rates. (ZMO- DEM streams the data for the best possible throughput.) L N Use ZMODEM sub-packets of length N. A larger N (32 <= N <= 1024) gives slightly higher throughput, a smaller N speeds error recovery. The default is 128 below 300 baud, 256 above 300 baud, or 1024 above 2400 baud. l N Wait for the receiver to acknowledge correct data every N (32 <= N <= 1024) characters. This may be used to avoid network overrun when XOFF flow control is lack- ing. n (ZMODEM) Send each file if destination file does not exist. Overwrite destination file if source file is newer or longer than the destination file. N (ZMODEM) Send each file if destination file does not exist. Overwrite destination file if source file has different length or date. o (ZMODEM) Disable automatic selection of 32 bit CRC. p (ZMODEM) Protect existing destination files by skipping transfer if the destination file exists. q Quiet suppresses verbosity. r Resume interrupted file transfer. If the source file is longer than the destination file, the transfer com- mences at the offset in the source file that equals the length of the destination file. t tim Change timeout to tim tenths of seconds. u Unlink the file after successful transmission. v Verbose causes a list of file names to be appended to szlog . More v's generate more output. X Send a single file with XMODEM or XMODEM-1k protocol. y Instruct a ZMODEM receiving program to overwrite any existing file with the same name. w N restrict transmit window size to N. P <directory or file> (ZMODEM) Sz may be given the name of a directory, in which case it will send the contents of the directory, and all the subdirectories thereof. The -P 'Prune' option is used to prune out the named directory or file while expanding the directory tree. Multiple -P options may be specified. This option is only present when the source is compiled with the pre-processor symbol `RECURSE' defined. SZ guesses the file mode by examining the filename extension as discusses under RZ above. SZ -f send full pathnames with '\' converted to '/'. The ST drive specifier is never sent. SEE ALSO ZMODEM.DOC, YMODEM.DOC, IMP(CP/M), cu(1), Professional-YAM manual, sz(omen), usq(omen), undos(omen) Compile time options required for various operating systems are described in the source file. NOTES Depending on your file structure, when using the recursively descend a directory option of Sz, ZMDM can demand a lot of dynamic memory. When the pre-processor symbol `RECURSE' is defined, for Mark Williams C, `_stksize' is set to 16K. If you are using Alcyon C, please use a decent version of GEMSTART.S. We use the version from pratt@atari with memory model (STACK=1), which gives quarter of available memory to stack+heap. Note that all the dynamic memory is taken off the program heap (for Alcyon, and off the Arena above the stack for Mark Wiliams), ie. ZMDM uses `malloc' not `Malloc'. It is possible to run out of dynamic memory when descending a file structure with a lot of files and/or deep-hierarchies. The simplest way to work around this problem is to do the sending in parts by using the -P rune option of Sz. For instance if you run out of memory while trying to send your C partition, you may want to prune out some directories and send things in parts. In my case i backup my C partition to our unix host in the following manner: sz -f -P c:\bin -P c:\lib c:\ /* send eveything in the C partition except the 'bin' and 'lib' subdirectories */ sz -f c:\bin c:\lib /* then send the 'bin' and 'lib' directories */ The second solution depends on if you are using Mark Williams or Alcyon C libraries. If you are running out of memory because of deep hierarchies, you need to increase the stack. If you are running out of memory because of a lot of files, then you need to decrease the stack to allow for a larger arena in the case of MWC (and trade-off for depth), or in the case of Alcyon you need to increase stack+heap. On systems with a large Ramdisk or many ACCs make sure you have enough space before doing this. The TTY input buffering on some systems may not allow long blocks or streaming input, especially at high baud rates. The Pro-YAM zmodem l numeric parameter may be set to a value between 64 and 1024 to limit the burst length. BUGS THIS SOFTWARE IS STILL UNDER DEVELOPMENT AND ALMOST POSITIVELY CONTAINS BUGS. PLEASE REPORT ALL SUCH CRITTERS TO dsrgsun!bammi. Pathnames are restricted to 127 characters. In XMODEM sin- gle file mode, the pathname given on the command line is still processed as described above. FILES (rz|sz)log stores debugging output generated with -vvv[v]* option. OTHER COMMANDS The following command are available in the transfer shell: <regular-expression> ::= <file name> | <wild card> | 'quoted string' NB: A quoted string cannot contain embedded single quotes. There are no escape character available in a quoted string. rm, remove files rm [-i] <regular expression> -i ::= interactive mode, you are prompted before file(s) are removed. cp, copy files cp <many files> directory copy all files into directory cp *.c d:\foo - copy all C files into foo directory on drive D: cp <file> <directory> copy file to directory\file. cp <file> <file> file to file copy 'cp file con:' to get the listing of a file. ls, list directory ls [wild card] ls without an argument will list all files in the current directory. If an argument is given, then only files matching the wild card will be listed. ls *.c - list all C files in current directory ls d:\foo - list all files in foo directory on D: ls d:\foo\*.c - list all C files in foo directory cd, change working directory cd directory md, make a directory md directory rd, remove a directory rd directory Due to a Gemdos bug, you may have to say 'rd directory' twice to get rid of directory. This happens when you try to remove a directory that you have never visited. pwd, print working directory prints the current working directory df, check free space df [device] df without an argument will show free space on current drive. df with an argument will show free space on specified drive. TERMCAP Termcap entries that may be used for the terminal emulator. st|520st|atariST|520 or 1040, bw, std sys font, 25 lines, 80 col:\ :ae=\Eba:al=\EL:am:as=\Ebc:\ :bl=^G:bs:\ :cd=\EJ:ce=\EK:cl=\EH\EJ:cm=\EY%+ %+ :co#80:cr=^M:\ :dl=99\EM:do=\EB:\ :ho=\EH:\ :is=\Ev\Ee:\ :kd=\274:kh=\216:kl=\275:kr=\276:ku=\273:\ :le=^H:li#25:\ :nd=\EC:nl=^J:\ :pt:\ :se=\Eq:so=\Ep:sr=\EI:\ :ta=^I:\ :up=\EA: ST|ST25|atariSTcolor|as above but with color for standout :\ :ae=\Eba:al=\EL:am:as=\Ebc:\ :bl=^G:bs:\ :cm=\EY%+ %+ :co#80:li#25:cr=^M:cd=\EJ:ce=\EK:cl=\EH\EJ:\ :dl=99\EM:do=^J:\ :ho=\EH:\ :is=\Ev\Ee:\ :kd=\274:kh=\216:kl=\275:kr=\276:ku=\273:\ :le=^H:\ :nd=\EC:nl=^J:\ :pt:\ :so=\Ec2\Eb3:se=\Ec0\Eb3:sr:\EI:\ :ta=^I:\ :up=\EA: sT|st50|AtariST emulating vt52, bw, 50 lines, 80 col:\ :ae=\Eba:al=\EL:am:as=\Ebc:\ :bl=^G:bs:\ :cd=\EJ:ce=\EK:cl=\EH\EJ:cm=\EY%+ %+ :co#80:cr=^M:\ :dl=99\EM:do=^J:\ :ho=\EH:\ :is=\Ev\Ee:\ :kd=\274:kh=\216:kl=\275:kr=\276:ku=\273:\ :le=^H:li#50:\ :nd=\EC:nl=^J:\ :pt:\ :se=\Eq:so=\Ep:sr=\EI:\ :ta=^I:\ :up=\EA: COMPILING The source provided with this distribution will compile with either ALCYON C V4.14 as distributed with the Atari Development System, with Mark Williams C Version 2.00 or later, with MANX Aztec C (V3.6a tested) or with Gnu C (v1.35 or later). (please note that the system will NOT compile with earlier versions of either compiler.) Edit config.h. If you are using Alcyon(and ALN for the linker), check paths in LNK Define the preprocessor symbol `RECURSE' if you want the sz to accept directory names(and send its contents), and for the -P option. To compile with Gnu C see `makefile.gcc' and `makefilg.sta' To compile with Alcyon see the file `makefile.alc' To compile with Mark Williams C see the file `makefile' To compile with Manx Aztec C see the file `makefile.man' Rename ZMDM.PRG to ZMDM.TOS if you so desire. MORE ALCYON NOTES: -- Some people seem to have a bad version of as68 with Alcyon, that does'nt handle static variables too well (ie. symbols of the form "`name" in the assembler). Please make sure yours is not one of these. -- Use a reasonable version of gemstart.s - ie. one which gives you a decent amount of stack+heap space. One of the nicer versions floating around is the one written by Alan Pratt @atari, that gives you the various memory model options, and corrects the bug with the bdos call as suggested by Robert Royar on this net. -- Do NOT use the `fix' distributed on CompuServe developers forum in the file WILDFI.ARC (in Dl7). This fix does'nt fix anything, it breaks everything! KNOWN BUGS -v's on the ST end don't do a thing! If a receive is cancelled/aborted, the receive file buffer is not flushed to the file. Personally, i view this as a feature rather than a bug, so it is unlikely to be `fixed'. DISCLAIMER This code is in public domain, and you are encouraged to distribute it further. You may however not sell the code, or use it for any commercial gains. The code is provided as is, and we are not responsible for any omissions/errors, bugs, nor do we claim correctness or its fitness for any purpose. Please forward your comments and suggestions to Jwahar Bammi bang: {any internet host}!dsrgsun.ces.CWRU.edu!bammi jwahar r. bammi domain: bammi@dsrgsun.ces.CWRU.edu GEnie: J.Bammi Compu$erve: 71515,155 or >INTERNET bammi@dsrgsun.ces.cwru.edu /* EOF */