Xref: utzoo alt.bbs:5923 comp.dcom.modems:10560 Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ccut!wnoc-tyo-news!astemgw!kuis!aegis!davidg From: davidg%aegis.or.jp@kyoto-u.ac.jp (Dave McLane) Newsgroups: alt.bbs,comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: Can zmodem be used from a Unix box to a BBS on a PC? Message-ID: Date: 23 Jun 91 21:42:59 GMT References: <1991Jun22.200906.11246@bluemoon.uucp> Organization: Aegis Society, Kyoto Japan Lines: 29 grant@bluemoon.uucp (Grant DeLorean) writes: > davidg%aegis.or.jp@kyoto-u.ac.jp (Dave McLane) writes: > > >I also bought Pro-YAM from Omen Technology (which supplies rz/sz) > >and while it isn't what I would call the most user-friendly > >interface, it does the job. > > If you only wanted rz and sz you didn't have to buy Pro-YAM, the UNIX > source for rz, sz, rb and sb (Ymodem and modem7) and rx and sx are > freely available. Easy to compile, too. True enough, but Pro-YAM has some features that rz, etc. don't. I could have added them since I have the souce code, but it was easier to just buy Pro-YAM and link it to rz. > YAM is customizable, it isn't a menu driven interface out of the > box but can be pushed far in that direction if that is what you want > (look at the files in /usr/lib/yam, like phones.t which wants rewritten > anyway). Personally, I like Pro-YAM becuase it isn't menu driven though... But we digress, the reason for the original postting was to say that you can use Pro-YAM to dialout to a DOS system (while you need to dialout with something else to be able to use rz.... Dave -- Dave McLane