Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga.datacomm:674 comp.unix.questions:29306 Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!wuarchive!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!jbn35564 From: jbn35564@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,comp.unix.questions Subject: sz dealing with permissions bug? (was VLT suggestions) Message-ID: <1991Mar9.173759.11968@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 9 Mar 91 17:37:59 GMT References: <5307@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> <7443@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1991Mar7.152140.16518@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <7458@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <5346@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Reply-To: jeffo@uiuc.edu Distribution: usa Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 31 This is being cross-posted to comp.unix.questions and the Subject: line has been appropriately altered. In cedman@golem.ps.uci.edu (Carl Edman) writes: >3. Is the fact that you cannot download via xprzmodem and rz under >some (all ?) flavours of unix a bug in > a) rz > b) xprzmodem > c) the unix flavour > d) VLT ? > > Carl Edman >"We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot >morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot >do." -- Auberon Herbert > Send mail to Carl Edman I think there is a problem with sz when no permissions are set (when the permissions line looks like "----------"). Zmodem will start the download with a valid 'challenge', but then nothing follows. No filename, file info, nothing. The receiving Zmodem ends up waiting a long time and just reporting TIMEOUTs. Jeff -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | "If you hear an onion ring - answer it." J.B. Nicholson | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | jeffo@uiuc.edu (Internet) These opinions are mine, that's all.| +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+