Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!ganymede!terre.DMI.USherb.CA!mazu From: mazu@terre.DMI.USherb.CA (Marc Mazuhelli) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: Pllleeeaasse help me (file transfer vie. network) Keywords: network Message-ID: <1990Nov16.151905.17107@DMI.USherb.CA> Date: 16 Nov 90 15:19:05 GMT References: <1990Nov14.194720.19950@ucselx.sdsu.edu> <1990Nov15.022708.6324@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> Sender: usenet@DMI.USherb.CA (Pour courrier Usenet) Organization: Universite de Sherbrooke, Quebec Lines: 45 Nntp-Posting-Host: terre.dmi.usherb.ca In article <1990Nov15.022708.6324@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> topix@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (R. Munroe) writes: >Basically, what you need is a communications package that supports >kermit transfers. Kermit is a public domain transfer protocol >from Columbia University (I think it's Columbia - imagine the flames >if I'm wrong). Most Mac communications programs offer kermit transfers: >MacKermit (which is public domain - I'm using it on my Mac right now, >logged onto the University of Toronto's general-purpose unix machine), >MicroPhone II (you pay for this one), and VTPro (costs $, too) come >immediately to mind. Unfortunately, ZTerm doesn't support Kermit (yet; I don't know about future releases...) Kermit is a *v e r y s l o o o o w* protocol; ZModem is much better, and it's a lot more automatic! I think a better solution would be to install rz and sz (I think they are in the publick domain) on the Unix host. There may be versions of rz and sz or of other programs that support zmodem on Unix on apple.com. Sorry I can't be sure about where to get it; they're already installed on our system. With ZTerm, you just need to log on to your host, go to the right directory and type "sz files", with wildcards if you like, and ZTerm should start receiving the files without any other intervention! You can also program the name of the command that receives files on your Unix host in ZTerm (in our case, rz), and when you want to transfer files from the Mac to the host, just issue the Send Zmodem command in ZTerm, choose the files and it will invoke the rz command automatically! It's great! You would also wait *a lot* less than with Kermit. It's amazing to see how the send or receive light on a modem says on continuously while transfering with Zmodem. By contrast, with kermit, it's on for a short period and off a while, then on and off again, ... I use our GatorBox to transfer files from our Sun to my Mac when I'm at work, but I occasionaly use ZTerm with sz when I'm at home and I don't want to wait until the next working day. Hope this helps! -- { Marc Mazuhelli | professeur } { internet: mazu@dmi.USherb.CA | Departement de math-info. } { | Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada }