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- From: jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.)
- Subject: Re: Question about rz/sz
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.193612.19422@muddcs.claremont.edu>
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- Organization: Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
- References: <Bu4FMt.5u2@Nyongwa.CAM.ORG> <1992Sep5.224425.27891@muddcs.claremont.edu> <1992Sep7.144021.22715@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 19:36:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep7.144021.22715@klaava.Helsinki.FI> wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:
- >jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) writes:
- >>Personally, Omen will never see a penny of my money unless they find
- >>someone who can write documentation. There are better (and free)
- >>zmodem implementations for DOS (Texas ZModem for one), and the old
- >>'free' rzsz packages work fine for me. I also have no use for a
- >>communications program that is by all reports hard-to-use.
- >
- >BTW, does anybody have a pointer to documentation of the Zmodem
- >protocol? It seems that somebody might want to write a better Zmodem
- >for Unix.
-
- The thing to do is find the pre-1989 (?) rzsz packages and base the
- work on that - those versions were public domain. Versions after that
- have a rather non-specific copyright.
-
- --
- + Jim Winstead Jr. (CSci '95)
- | Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
- | jwinstea@jarthur.Claremont.EDU
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