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- From: hugh@ear.mit.edu (Hugh Secker-Walker)
- Subject: Communications packages (was: Using sz/rz on NeXT)
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- Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 15:15:17 GMT
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- In article <72842@hydra.gatech.EDU> cc100aa@xray.gatech.edu (Ray Spalding) writes:
-
- In article <LOTTO.92Oct27065915@math.math.berkeley.edu> lotto@math.berkeley.edu (Ben Lotto) writes:
- >...trying to speed up our file downloads by installing zmodem programs sz
- >... but now we don't know
- >exactly how to use them. We use kermit as our communications program.
-
- You might try using "tipx" instead of kermit; source code is available
- on ftp.uu.net.
- It's a version of "tip" that's been enhanced to interface with
- zmodem. Has a nice curses-based progress display.
- It was apparently developed on a Sun; I've been ironing out some
- bugs that appear on NeXTs, and with the interface to my particular
- model of modem.
-
- Is there a decent, basic comm package for the NeXT?
- I just recently bought a used NeXTstation, and I'm still having
- difficulty getting connected. I'd like to have PPP, but the campus
- network folks aren't being very responsive and I can't afford a third
- party service, yet. For the time being I'm stuck with traditional
- modem communications.
-
- I used IComm for a short while but found it very limited: fixed
- size 24 x 80 window, no meta key, no 19200 or 38400 DTE (the
- advertised 19200 doesn't work for me), only zmodem, progress shown
- in an _attention_ panel. Forget the shareware fee, and bypass the
- recycler :-). I found tip unusable because of all the in-band
- escapes. Haven't tried tipx. I wrote a tiny program that let any
- old terminal window communicate directly with the modem. That
- meant I could log into campus machines and have a 70 line emacs
- window, etc, but no file transfers. Yesterday I grabbed PComm1.2
- from c.s.unix.archives, but couldn't get it to work. So I tried
- pcomm from orst. This is an older version of PComm with a couple
- of changes to make it work under NeXT's unix. Once I learned how
- to use it, it performed nicely. I'm in the process of adding
- 38400 DTE capabilities and getting uucp setuid to work properly (I
- think this was the trouble with PComm1.2).
-
- Before I (and Ben Lotto) spend too much time reinventing the
- wheel, could you let me know what you know about low-cost, basic,
- decent communications packages for the NeXT? Email me and I'll
- summarize.
-
- If the results are dismal I may write a basic comm application as
- a first NeXTstep project. Any suggestions, pointers, or insights
- towards this end would be greatly appreciated.
-
- Thanks.
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