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From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Zmodem with 7 bit transmission
Message-ID: <32@omen.UUCP>
Date: 18 Oct 90 13:13:54 GMT
References: <1990Oct16.064742.20502@cs.cmu.edu>
Organization: Omen Technology INC
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In article <1990Oct16.064742.20502@cs.cmu.edu> climan+@cs.cmu.edu (Dani Climan) writes:
:Does anyone have a Unix version of zmodem that supports 7 bit transmission?
:The local network which I use to access the university's computers uses
:a 7 bit even parity protocol.  The only file transfer protocol that I
:have found that works is kermit.  My PC documentation for zmodem (DSZ.EXE)
:specifically refers to two flags (-E, -P) that use 7 bit transmission.
:However, the unix docs do not discuss this feature and all attempts to
:get it to work have failed.  I have checked rzsz0525.zoo and rzszv307.zoo.
:Is there a more recent version or a different one that supports the PC
:7 bit feature?  Does anyone have any experience getting this to work?

I have no plans to upgrade the shareware rzsz files to include ZMODEM-90
(MobyTurbo, 7-bit, etc.).  I learned my lesson with rzsz version 3.x.

Unix Professional-YAM replaces rz and sz with hard links to /usr/bin/yam.
This provides the full ZMODEM-90 feature set.

Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX          ...!tektronix!reed!omen!caf 
Author of YMODEM, ZMODEM, Professional-YAM, ZCOMM, and DSZ
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