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From: dwolfe@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Dave Wolfe)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: zmodem
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.175029.3306@oakhill.sps.mot.com>
Date: 6 Jun 91 17:50:29 GMT
References: <1991Jun4.234241.4762@milton.u.washington.edu> <1991Jun5.174530.16645@oakhill.sps.mot.com> <1991Jun5.220442.20692@milton.u.washington.edu>
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In <1991Jun5.220442.20692@milton.u.washington.edu> sisley@milton.u.washington.edu (David Barr) writes:

>In article <1991Jun5.174530.16645@oakhill.sps.mot.com> dwolfe@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Dave Wolfe) shoots from the hip (and misses :-):
>>Yes, quit trying to kill gnats w/ a cannon -- just run the zmodem
>>package from comp.sources.unix in an xterm window.

>Yes, but I don't think that this will behave as a terminal.  I want
>to be able to telnet to a modem, dial a BBS, and download a file using
>z-modem.

So what you really want is a communications line manager, a.k.a. a
terminal emulator on other systems?  Then the zmodem transfer program
is purely secondary to the connection.  For PD stuff, I guess kermit is
as good as any.

As was pointed out to me via e-mail, the zmodem programs are going to
use stdin/stdout, which will be the telnet connection, not the modem.
They're intended to be used as more of a server that's called from
other systems to transfer files.  I didn't see any way in the man page
to redirect the zmodem communication to another port (I didn't look too
hard), but it shouldn't be that big of a deal to hack it to open some
designated port and do the transfer.  As the following from the sz man
page says:

    This program is not designed to be called from cu(1) or
    other communications programs.  Unix flavors of Omen
    Technology's Professional-YAM communications software are
    available for dial-out applications.

Their address:

    Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX          ...!tektronix!reed!omen!caf
    Author of YMODEM, ZMODEM, Professional-YAM, ZCOMM, and DSZ
      Omen Technology Inc    "The High Reliability Software"
    17505-V NW Sauvie IS RD   Portland OR 97231   503-621-3406
    TeleGodzilla:621-3746 FAX:621-3735 CIS:70007,2304 Genie:CAF

Hope this helps more than my first suggestion.

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