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From: ostroff@Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: Does UMODEM work on local connections?
Keywords: UMODEM XMODEM local
Message-ID: <1991Apr9.161637.12059@oswego.oswego.edu>
Date: 9 Apr 91 16:16:37 GMT
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In article <1991Apr8.221615.1195@cbnewsj.att.com> kal@cbnewsj.att.com (kevin.lyons) writes:
>In these
>cases I use the vt100 terminal emulator and call umodem with
>the shift-Cmd keys.
>
>I start umodem on the 3b1, then I start xmodem on the other
>computer ... then I wait.  Eventually they time out and
>blame each other.

I don't use the emulator, but I use a Mac running various telcom programs
as a terminal at 9600 baud and it works great for me.  I just use

 umodem -st filename  or   umodem -sb filename (for binary files)

and then hit "receive file" on the mac and away it goes.  The only problem
I've noticed is that there are often a bunch of NULLs appended to the end
of the file, as though the two programs couldn't agree on where the file
ends...

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