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From: barry@network.ucsd.edu (Barry Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Z-Term, Unix, and Mac
Keywords: Zmodem
Message-ID: <4526@network.ucsd.edu>
Date: 24 Jan 91 05:28:32 GMT
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In article <1052@levelland.cs.utexas.edu> rosen@cs.utexas.edu (Eric Carl Rosen) writes:
>If you are experiencing recurring problems with a Zmodem transfer, I suggest
>the following advice:
>  [advice deleted]

A very common fix is to turn on Zmodem windowing.  This is accomplished,
from the Unix prompt, with the -w option.  Initially, set the window
size to be 1024:

  sz -w 1024 filenames

However, you should experiment to determine the setting best for you.
The window size should be a multiple of 128.

Windowing seems to be absolutely required on BSD or BSD-derived operating
systems.

Another thing to add would be that telnet and rlogin do not, by default,
offer 8-bit-clean data paths.  Both programs eat certain characters.
Rlogin can, I think, be coaxed into giving you a clean data line with
the -8 option.

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