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From: wjbaird@dahlia.uwaterloo.ca (Warren Baird)
Subject: Re: ProTERM and zmodem (was:Re: GS as a IIe)
Message-ID: <1991Jan12.201657.3529@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
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Date: Sat, 12 Jan 91 20:16:57 GMT
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In article <1991Jan12.062209.8306@en.ecn.purdue.edu> platkus@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Shawn W Platkus) writes:
>
>I use ProTERM 2.2, and I know that X, Y, and Z modem all work fine.  
>I've called up a couple of my mac friends and we have transfered files using
>zmodem, and Ymodem.  
>	But, just like you, I couldn't get ProTERM to work through the network
>either.  It did the exact same thing you described.
> 
>I was working @ 2400 over phone lines.  A guy with a mac across the hall
>dialed up with his mac, used the same rz and sz unix based protocals that I
>tried, and it worked fine.  So we all know its ProTERM I guess.  
>But Zmodem with ProTERM works fine going to another micro!

Well...  I know that ProTerm doesn't support a FULL zmodem (I
understand that zmodem gives options like restarting an interupted
transfer, and a lot of other options).  I heard somewhere that zmodem
is supposed to be able to handle 7 bit transfers, it is possible that
this feature is also not supported in ProTerm's zmodem transfer.

I don't know much about the innards of zmodem, maybe someone else can
enlighten us all..

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         Warren Baird, 2A Co-op Math Computer Science, U(Waterloo)
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