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From: j1whalen@handel.helios.nd.edu (Jon Whalen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: ZTerm - Wow!
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.230400.20618@news.nd.edu>
Date: 17 Jun 91 23:04:00 GMT
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In article <1991Jun15.194256.10646@umiami.ir.miami.edu> ian@umiami.ir.miami.edu writes:
>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
...
>> bright software package.  I was in the middle of downloading a 
>> binhex'd file when things just locked up.  The Mac didn't crash
...
>> sending the file again.  Much to my surprise, ZTerm picked up
>> where it left off - remember, I had broken the connection but had not
>
>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?

That's one of the two small, but irritating things about ZTerm/Zmodem.
You can use the "Zbin" files if you just change the type/creator info using
resedit or some other program. I don't know whether the problem is one
built into the zmodem protocol or whether it's a "feature" of ZTerm.

--jon

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