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From: metahawk@itsgw.rpi.edu (Wayne G Rigby)
Subject: Re: Novaterm and SZ
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Date: 24 Apr 91 21:28:51 GMT
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In article <1991Apr16.031457.5168@spool.cs.wisc.edu> kolstad@jomby.cs.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad) writes:
>Well, I've tried my hardest, and I can't get Novaterm to work with SZ.
>:-(
>
>With Novaterm set to XModem or XModem-1K, the 64 usually gets one block
>of the program, and then just sits there waiting forever and ever and 
>ever!
>
>With Novaterm set to YModem, the 64 starts receiving, but eventually decides
>that it got a bad block somewhere and sits there waiting and waiting.
>
>For XModem/XModem 1K, I've been using "SX <filename>" on a Unix Box.  For
>YModem, I've been using "SZ <filename>".
>
>Does anybody know why this doesn't work?  Or better yet -- what do I have to
>do to get it to work?
>
>Please e-mail me any suggestions that you might have.  Thanks!
>
>			    ---Joel Kolstad

Well, it's been the experience of many of us here at Rensselaer that X-Modem
(and variants) just don't work with the mainframes.  It doesn't matter what
base you use (Amiga, C64/128, Mac), it just doesn't work.  It works fine
with other PC's.  So the problem seems to be with the mainframes.

     Now my Problem.  I'm about to lose the Amiga that I've been borrowing
all year long.  And now that I'm use to a good VT100 emulator, I want to
download a good VT100 term program (suggestions/ftp sites?) for my C128.
(The one that came with the 1670 really sucks!)  The only transfer protocol
that really works with the campus' mainframes is Kermit.  (I want that in
the VT100 emulator, as I don't have it.)  Now the problem is how to get
the term prog. from the mainframe to my 128 with the stuff that came with
the 1670.  Any ideas?  (I'd like to pull this off without having to call
long distance and transferring at 1200 baud.  Yuck!)

                                   Wayne Rigby
                                   Computer and Systems Engineer (in training)
                                   Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
                                   metahawk@rpi.edu