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From: valley@uchicago (Doug Dougherty)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: PC-to-UNIX communications help needed
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Date: 3 Mar 91 19:36:53 GMT
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REIDMP@MAINE.BITNET (Reid M. Pinchback) writes:
> 
>Re: using 'sz' as a PC-Unix link works fine, provided the modem is directly
>connected to the Unix box.  If some kind of dial-up network is being used
>with something like a 7E1 parity then file transfers of binaries may not
>work (does anybody know a good reliable fix for this, in situations where
>the user can't control the line settings on the network?)
> 
Use the -e (escape all control chars) switch.  I.e., "sz -ea file" or
"sz -eb file".  I've been using this through our terminal server and it
works fine.  (Doesn't work w/o the -e)  Doesn't seem to impact on
throughput, either...