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From: garnett@cs.utexas.edu (John William Garnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Questions from NeW NeXTer (OD noise/rz+sz/tip)
Message-ID: <1185@nada.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 16 Mar 91 00:41:38 GMT
References: <1991Mar15.173412.22124@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
Organization: University of Texas at Austin
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In article <1991Mar15.173412.22124@spool.cs.wisc.edu> jcargill@oka.cs.wisc.edu (Jon Cargille) writes:
]
]Couple of quick questions from a NeW NeXT user...  ;) I too was lucky
]enough to snarf a BL demo cube.  :) ** (ear-ear).
]
]  1) OD noise -- My OD sounds like it is related to the gatling guns
]		 of old.  Is this normal?  Not having used an OD-only

Unfortunately, this is normal.  Maybe we ought to bring back old
time radio... we could use the optical for machine-gun sounds effects :-).

]  2) rz/sz -- Ok.  I've downloaded these, and wish to use Zmodem
]              protocol for file transfers to/from at unix box at
]              school (which has rz/sz also).  This may sound dumb, but
]              how do I do it??  I've tried logging in with Kermit,
]              issuing a Sz (send) command on the remote host, quiting
]              kermit, and issuing:

I use zmodem by logging in with tip and using the ~$ command.
You need to get versions of sz and rz that support the -1 option.
You should also create a .tiprc that includes the command that
causes tip to use a Bourne shell subshell when it runs sz or rz.
Using the default csh causes complaints about permissions of
some sort.

]  3) tip problems -- I set up tip with no problems.  However, I don't
]                     seem to be able to get the ~< ~> ~t or ~p to
]                     work.  These seem to hang tip.  Am I doing
]                     something stupid?  

I've seen the same behavior under 2.0.

-- 
John Garnett
                              University of Texas at Austin
garnett@cs.utexas.edu         Department of Computer Science
                              Austin, Texas