Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!xanth!xanth.cs.odu.edu!tadguy From: tadguy@cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Zmodem for UNIX Message-ID: Date: 25 Oct 89 17:21:45 GMT References: <1989Oct19.170737.25014@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <89294.123406GIAMPAL@AUVM.BITNET> <8259@cbmvax.UUCP> Sender: news@cs.odu.edu Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA Lines: 21 In-reply-to: valentin@cbmvax.UUCP's message of 24 Oct 89 22:28:50 GMT In article <8259@cbmvax.UUCP> valentin@cbmvax.UUCP (Valentin Pepelea) writes: In article <89294.123406GIAMPAL@AUVM.BITNET> GIAMPAL@AUVM.BITNET writes: >While on the subject of X, Y, and Z modem protocols, has any one >ever seen/used any of these under CMS on an IBM mainframe? Kermit >is terribly frustrating and something like this would be helpful >to many I'm sure. The problem with transfering files to and from IBM mainframes is that characters on the IBM side are not stored in ASCII format but trather in EBCDIC (pronounced "epsodic") format. The result is that only a character based transfer, such as Kermit, can do the job. This happens only if you request character set translation to occur. If you do a binary transfer, you should be able to transfer .ZOO files and such as unformatted binary files under CMS... Since some protocol converters can become ``transparent'' (as if done with CMS Kermit), it seems reasonable that someone could write a zyx-modem program for CMS... ...tad