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- From: jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.)
- Subject: Re: Question about rz/sz
- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.224425.27891@muddcs.claremont.edu>
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- Organization: Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
- References: <Bu4FMt.5u2@Nyongwa.CAM.ORG>
- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 22:44:25 GMT
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- In article <Bu4FMt.5u2@Nyongwa.CAM.ORG> steve@Nyongwa.CAM.ORG (Steve M. Robbins) writes:
- >I remember seeing someone posting about having ported zmodem to linux, so
- >I thought I'd post my question here. I mailed this to omen!caf but he's
- >ignoring it.
- >
- >I grabbed the source to rz from whatever comp.sources group it was in and
- >it compiled and ran to my surprise with no changes. But all through the
- >docs and man pages is this big warning "rz is not to be run from 'cu' or
- >other terminal programs -- use our professional-yam comm software".
- >
- >WHY NOT?
-
- Because Omen Technologies does not make money if you don't buy
- Professional-YAM. You might call the warnings strongly-worded
- advertisements.
-
- 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.
-
- >It was not always entirely successful, however, so I'm curious to know if there
- >is a short answer to this. (On occasion it will stop in the middle with a
- >message about reading the BUGS section of the manual)
-
- The only problems I've had with rz/sz is the result of what I consider
- rather poorly laid-out code. #include <rbsb.c>?
- --
- + Jim Winstead Jr. (CSci '95)
- | Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
- | jwinstea@jarthur.Claremont.EDU
- + or jwinstea@fenris.Claremont.EDU
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