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- From: huot@cray.com (Tom Huot)
- Subject: Re: Need help with ZMODEM.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.143557.24546@walter.cray.com>
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- Date: 15 Dec 92 14:35:56 CST
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- John Wiederhoeft (jdwiede@PacBell.COM) wrote:
- : 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.
-
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-
- Is your Sun set up to communicate with 8 bits, no parity, and 1 stop bit?
- If not, that may be your problem. I have yet to get a Sun to PC download
- to work with the setup at 7E1. If you can change your comm setup on the
- Sun to N81, it may work. It works fine on our Sun machines.
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