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From: ssircar@ecs.umass.edu (Good writers re-write -- not write!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Zmodem for 7-bit paths wanted
Message-ID: <9493.262043bd@ecs.umass.edu>
Date: 9 Apr 90 08:11:41 GMT
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In article <1563@blackbird.afit.af.mil>, news@blackbird.afit.af.mil (News System Account) writes:
> jmerrill@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Confusion Reigns) writes:
> 
>>>Fortunately, Zmodem is smart enough to detect and automatically switch to
>>>7-bit mode, although sometimes it needs help with the -e or -E option.
>>>This is available in the ZCOMM comm package, DSZ external protocol, and the
>>>rzsz.zoo that is made for BSD/SYSV UNIX.
> 
>>Which version of rzsz.zoo would this be, then?  The latest version I am
>>aware of is rzsz0525.zoo, which most definitely does not support 7-bit
>>paths.  I'd like to find a Zmodem-90 package for the local UNIX box, but I
>>don't think one exists.
> 
> The version on our system is '1.44', whatever the date works out as.  When
> I transfer files, my ZCOMM detects the 7-bit path, and tells the other end
> to switch to 7-bit mode.  In extreme cases, the -e option on either end will
> force the transfer to take place as if the line were 7-bit (I know, the
> throughput slows from 230cps to 180cps at 2400 baud!).  I am using the 
> latest ZCOMM (March 90).
> 
> Ed Williams
> 
> ewilliam@blackbird.afit.af.mil
I just received my registered version of DSZ.  The disk includes an .EXE version
of DSZ which allows tranfers over 7-bit paths.
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