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- From: parlog@echo.canberra.edu.au (Parlog project)
- Subject: Re: Zmodem between SparcStation and PC
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- Organization: Info Sci & Eng, University of Canberra, AUSTRALIA
- References: <POPINEAU.92Dec4092621@tintin.ese-metz.fr> <1fn98hINNlo9@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 11:47:37 GMT
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- In <1fn98hINNlo9@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> philb@cats.ucsc.edu (Philip Brown) writes:
-
- >>Is there a public domain package which can do terminal emulation
- >>and file transfers using zmodem protocol between a SS1 (for example)
- >>and a PC ?
-
- >yeah. kermit, if ya want slooow transfers.
-
- >sz & rz for zmodem.
-
- Be warned that SZ and RZ are notoriously buggy. Go to some lengths to
- get the latest version you can and still be prepared to do some coding.
- Perhaps this is a bit unfair to the author -- it could be fairer to say
- that Unix terminal handling is amazingly inconsisent across differing
- platforms and versions of the OS. You may be lucky, you may not.
-
- The more esoteric the comms, the harder the code is to change. I've had
- to make wholesale changes to the programs to get them to work correctly
- across SunNet X.25's X.29 virtual circuits. This was a surpise to me --
- the Zmodem protocol was designed to work across X.29.
-
- Glen Turner
- Canberra University
- Australia
-