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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Updated rz/sz (Zmodem) for Unix and VMS now available
Keywords: modem,xmodem,ymodem,zmodem,unix,vax,vms,omen,forsberg
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Date: 12 Apr 91 21:36:54 GMT
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In article <75@omen.UUCP>, caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX) writes:
|> In article <22317@yunexus.YorkU.CA> rreiner@yunexus.YorkU.CA (Richard Reiner) writes:
|> -Why were the -a, -b, and -y options removed from this version?
|> 
|> They are supported whan passed from the sending program.
|> The new Rz also supports Crash Recovery.

According to one of the people at my site who uses rx for transferring files
to our Unix box fairly often:

>The "sending program" usually does NOT have a -a option, since the sending
>program is usually a standard PC software, with standard xmodem transfers.
>The Unix end should be able to do it, even if the PC end is not using
>Forsberg's program.

So, if it's true that there are some sending programs that do not know how to
specify -a, -b and -y when sending, then shouldn't the flags have been left in
the receiving programs?

And, if not, then how does my user get around the problem that his xmodem
sending program doesn't know how to automatically tell the receiver to do the
-a, -b, -y conversions, and there's no way to manually tell the receiver to do
the conversions?

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