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From: kwilcox@agt.uucp (Keith Wilcox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: zmodem to/from unix
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.142646.18707@agt.uucp>
Date: 24 Apr 91 14:26:46 GMT
References: <1991Apr22.031117.26228@newshost.anu.edu.au>
Organization: AGT Ltd. Research & Development
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jww502@anu.oz.au ("John W White") writes:

>I just downloaded the Zmodem files for the unix side from Sumex and after a little trouble compiled them.  My problem is that when I type in sz (or sx or sb for that matter) filename, it starts up the recieve window on Zterm nicely and transmits the file name, type, creator and size but then _NOTHING_ happens ! Eventually the Mac times out after about 5 minutes.  Is there anyone out there who can see what I'm doing wrong or who has hadsuccess with the same commands before or who can tell me the address of












This sounds very familiar to an experience I had with XMODEM v3.8. This program was
originally written I belive by Brian Kantor, UCSD (3/84) and then repeatedly modified
by various people to include zmodem,modem7, CRC error checking, and a whole bunch of
bug fixes. The information I have asks that any additional comment be sent to:

Steve Grandi, National Optical Astronomy Observatories (Tucson, Arizona)
        {ihnp4,ncar,arizona,...}!noao!grandi  grandi@noao.arizona.edu

Any how I fixed the problem with the symptoms you describe by makeing sure I was
using an 8bit, no parity, 1 stop bit configuration on the tty port. It seems that
if you use 7 bit the program just hangs and the "_NOTHING_ happens !. I never did have
time to look at the source and determine why this is but I hope you find this helpful.

If anyone out there in net.land can shed some light on this please post . . .


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