Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga.datacomm:677 comp.unix.questions:29308 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!cedman From: cedman@golem.ps.uci.edu (Carl Edman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: sz dealing with permissions bug? (was VLT suggestions) Message-ID: Date: 9 Mar 91 19:52:52 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> <1991Mar9.173759.11968@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Distribution: usa Organization: University of California, Irvine, USA. Lines: 30 Nntp-Posting-Host: lynx.ps.uci.edu In-reply-to: jbn35564@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu's message of 9 Mar 91 17:37:59 GMT In article <1991Mar9.173759.11968@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jbn35564@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson) writes: 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 ? 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. That is interesting to know, but that does not seem to be my problem. I have tried often (in fact every time i got a new version of VLT or zmodem) and repeatedly with all kinds of files, and it always fails. The 'rz' and the xprzmodem library never seem to come into contact with each other. I frankly suspect either rz or the unix flavour (HPUX) as ZModem uploads to other implementations and operating systems with VLT and xprzmodem seem to work without problem. 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