Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!bronze!copper!rschmidt From: rschmidt@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (roy schmidt) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Procomm+ & UNIX sz/rz?? (YMODEM batch question) Message-ID: <1991Apr2.011659.13681@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Date: 2 Apr 91 01:16:59 GMT References: <1991Mar26.221318.1822@pinhead.pegasus.com> <65@omen.UUCP> Sender: news@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington Lines: 31 In article edwong@bucsf.bu.edu writes: > >I thought the official release of Procomm Plus doesn't come with zmodem. I >guess this is why he doesn't use rz/sz and use rb/sb instead. >-- The "official" Procomm+ version 2.0 does include a semi robust rendering of z-modem as well as X- and Y-modem. There are some definite problems with all three ... as Chuck said in his earlier post (65@omen.UUCP) PC+ does not follow the specs all that closely. Using rz/sz from the university system to my PC+, I get frequent drop-outs (BAD CRC) after which the rz/sz is left running open, as PC+ fails to inform rz/sz that it is aborting. Same thing at the end of an eventually successful download -- PC+ sends a weird termination string that leaves rz/sz thinking there is a string mismatch and it is time to abort. Between this and the downgrade of the VT102 terminal emulation (they disabled custom colors to make the environment a true emulation) I would say this is another example of a reverse upgrade. I called DataStorm to complain, and asked if I could get a good price on a downgrade back to version 1.1B :-). I guess this is really not the right place for this discussion, so if anyone wants to continue in this vein, let's take it to c.o.m.apps. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roy Schmidt | #include Indiana University | /* They are _my_ thoughts, and you can't Graduate School of Business | have them, so there! */