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- From: fred@genesis.demon.co.uk (Lawrence Kirby)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!genesis.demon.co.uk!fred
- Subject: Need help with ZMODEM.
- Distribution: world
- References: <1992Dec14.215024.9838@PacBell.COM>
- Organization: BT
- Lines: 49
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 14:33:05 +0000
- Message-ID: <724429985snx@genesis.demon.co.uk>
- Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk
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- In article <1992Dec14.215024.9838@PacBell.COM> jdwiede@PacBell.COM writes:
-
- >
- > Hi, everyone!
- >
- >I am not sure that this is appropriate group for my posting, but
- >only here I've found couple articles about ZMODEM.
- >
- >I need to transfer data files from our UNIX (SunOS) environment to the
- >customer's PC. I've successfully did it with KERMIT, but it require some
- >user action to initiate receive operation.
- >So, my customer prefer to have ZMODEM, to do nothing.
- >
- >I've downloaded source code (zmodem.3.14.tar.Z), unpacked it and built
- >without problems using included makefile. (I issued 'make bsd' because
- >we are running SunOS 4.1.2).
- >Problems starts when I am trying to send files - plain ASCII text.
- >I am executing
- > sz -ay <filename>
- >and it definitely starts working, because PROCOM+ on the PC side popup
- >ZMODEM window and tries to receive data. But all the times I am getting
- >"BAD CRC" message. If data file is short ( <5K ) it sometimes goes through
- >after 10-15 retries, but bigger files - never.
- >I tried to play with flags for sz (i.e. use 32- or 16-bit CRC and so on)
- >as well as manipulated with ZMODEM options within PROCOM, but always get
- >same result.
- >I cannot blame telephone line, because KERMIT works perfectly. Also I've
- >tried ZMODEM with several BBS and it also work fine, so I can't blame PROCOM
- >either.
- >It definitely something wrong with our UNIX site. May be I am doing something
- >wrong, or there are problems with public domein version.
- >
- >If somebody could give me a hint I would very appreciated.
- > IG.
- >
-
- The problem you have is almost certainly flow control. ZMODEM is different to
- Kermit in that it sends data continuously. If the Unix system is sending data
- to the modem faster than it can transmit it then the modem's input buffer will
- fill up and characters will be lost. You need to set either hardware or
- XON/XOFF flow control in both the unix port and the modem. Also see the thread
- here 'Is a Sparc II too slow for my USR Sportster' which covers the same
- topic.
-
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- Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
- Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com
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