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From: ian@umiami.ir.miami.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: ZTerm - Wow!
Message-ID: <1991Jun15.194256.10646@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
Date: 15 Jun 91 23:42:55 GMT
References: <1991Jun15.040335.16036@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Organization: Univ of Miami IR
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In article <1991Jun15.040335.16036@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>, topix@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (R. Munroe) writes:
> I'm using ZTerm 0.85 on my Mac at home.  I use it to connect with a
> general purpose unix account at the University of Toronto (my Internet
> gateway).  My modem is 2400 baud.
> 
> Something neat just happened and I was wondering if this is a feature
> of most comm applications, or ZTerm just happens to be a very
> bright software package.  I was in the middle of downloading a 
> binhex'd file when things just locked up.  The Mac didn't crash
> but the transfer halted for some reason.  Rather than wait and see
> if it was just a delay, I turned my modem off and back on again to
> break the connection.  I then logged back in to UofT and started
> sending the file again.  Much to my surprise, ZTerm picked up
> where it left off - remember, I had broken the connection but had not
> exited from ZTerm (I did hit the cancel button in ZTerm's progress window, 
> though).  What a very nice feature.  I even got a message
> in the progress window saying the the transfer had resumed.
> 
> Once ZTerm's vt100 emulation is a bit better (ever try to vi a file?),
> I can't imagine a better package around.
> 
> Bob Munroe
> TOPIX Computer Graphics + Animation, Inc.
> topix@utcs.utoronto.ca
> 
> 416.971.7711

It is a nice feature of ZMODEM...but did you notice the file type...
ZBin or some such...I haven't been able to do much with those kind of files..
sigh...how did you make out?
-- 
Scruffy
Ian Sullivan
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