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From: nanook@eskimo.celestial.com (Robert Dinse)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Can zmodem be used from a Unix box to a BBS on a PC?
Summary: Zmodem - cu / pcomm
Message-ID: <755@eskimo.celestial.com>
Date: 23 Jun 91 05:00:37 GMT
References: <CARROW.91Jun20232047@cmsun.itd.nrl.navy.mil> <1991Jun21.130809.22536@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
Organization: ESKIMO NORTH (206) 367-3837 SEATTLE WA.
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In article <1991Jun21.130809.22536@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, slee@isis.cs.du.edu (Seng-Poh Lee, Speedy) writes:
| In article <CARROW.91Jun20232047@cmsun.itd.nrl.navy.mil> carrow@cmsun.itd.nrl.navy.mil (Steven Carrow) writes:
| >
| >I simply want to upload/download files from a Unix box (Sun) to a BBS
| >on a PC using zmodem. I know about rz and sz and that they are not
| >callable from within tip or cu. What I'd like to know is whether:
| 
| Thats not entirely true. I call rz and sz from within cu on my hp-ux 
| box without any problems. I have trouble doing it with my Sun and Xenix box,
| but I have been able to use pcomm to call rz and sz and that works fine. 
| Apparently pcomm is able to redirect the i/o correctly where cu can't.

     For what it's worth, Xcomm under Xenix also calls rz/sz fine, I use
it to transfer files from DOS system frequently.