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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Uploads at uwasa.fi archives
Message-ID: <1990Dec25.075910.24531@uwasa.fi>
Date: 25 Dec 90 07:59:10 GMT
References: <1990Dec24.195705.20569@uwasa.fi> <1990Dec24.215727.26283@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: University of Vaasa
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In article <1990Dec24.215727.26283@portia.Stanford.EDU> rstanton@portia.Stanford.EDU (Richard Stanton) writes:
>In article <1990Dec24.195705.20569@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
>> pcz40690.zip PcConnect Protocol Driver from Zmodem etc.
>>              I may be doing something wrong with this external
>>              zmodem, but I have never managed to make it transfer
>>              anything between my PC + MultiTech V32 MultiModem and
>>              our Sun 4 + DSI.
>
>You may be doing something wrong, but if so, I am too. I've never even
>come close to getting a file to transfer in either direction between a
>PC with MS-DOS 3.3 and a VAX running VMS 5.3 and any version of RZ or SZ.
>
>One problem may be that control characters screw up the transmission.
>I don't think this program has an option to escape control codes.

One clarification before we take this discussion to email or
elsewhere, but this might have some general interest to c.b.i.p.d
users, or someone might have further information on this program
distributed through our ftp channels.  The problem is either in the
pcz program, or in the way we try to use it.  I have made litarally
thousands of successful file transfers with Telix Zmodem (my PC <-->
computer centre Sun 4), and I've also tested Omen Technology's many
versions of dsz succesfully, even if its later circulated shareware
versions could be considered "crippleware" eg in the handling of
MsDos paths.  (I've retained an old version that does not have this
"feature" in the /pc/pd2 directory for evaluation.)

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Prof. Timo Salmi        (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3)
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun