Xref: utzoo comp.dcom.modems:8891 comp.unix.questions:29646 comp.unix.admin:1351 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!tellab5!vpnet!gagme!grahj From: grahj@gagme.chi.il.us (jim graham) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: DSZ ZMODEM problem Message-ID: <1264@gagme.chi.il.us> Date: 21 Mar 91 00:45:59 GMT References: <1991Mar16.190010.21805@cs.wayne.edu> <1991Mar18.151002.1423@crom2.uucp> Followup-To: comp.dcom.modems Organization: GAGME - Public Access UNIX of Chicago, Illinois, USA, Earth Lines: 35 In article t22918@ursa.calvin.edu (Matt Ranney) writes: > > All calls on our campus go through various terminal servers. some time ago, I posted a note here regarding a solution to the terminal server problem, and it seemed to help several people --- if you have the permissions needed to do so, you might try the following settings: 1) use HARDWARE flow control on both ends --- Xon/Xoff causes headaches for Zmodem (and Ymodem, and Xmodem, and ......) 2) also, one of the responses I got back then indicated that the terminal server must be set for TERMINAL-TRANSPARENT and TERMINAL-DOWNLOAD (these are the defaults on our cisco terminal server) 3) here's one I found by trial/error --- on the UNIX end, seems you need to use rz -be (or -ae) specifically, and don't specify the filename --- let Zmodem take care of it. not sure why these matter...if someone else has run into these, and knows why this is the case, I'd love to hear it. hope this helps.... --jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Share and Enjoy! (Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, complaints division) 73, de n5ial Amateur Radio: TCP/IP: jim@n5ial.ampr.org --- 44.72.47.193 Packet: n5ial@wb9mjn (Chicago, IL USA) Internet: grahj@gagme.chi.il.us ------------------------------------------------------------------------------