Xref: utzoo alt.bbs:5943 comp.dcom.modems:10593 Newsgroups: alt.bbs,comp.dcom.modems Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!n8emr!bluemoon!grant From: grant@bluemoon.uucp (Grant DeLorean) Subject: Re: Can zmodem be used from a Unix box to a BBS on a PC? Message-ID: <1991Jun25.144303.9151@bluemoon.uucp> Organization: Blue Moon BBS (614/868-9984 = T2500 | 998[02] = HST DS) References: <0e0244w164w@ijpc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 91 14:43:03 GMT ianj@ijpc.UUCP (Ian Justman) writes: >> 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. >Why would you need to link it to RZ since Pro-YAM already has >Zmodem built right in? You'd still need RZ and SZ to send and >receive files from a remote user. No, you would not still need rz and sz to send files to a remote user. The reason he said link is that link is cheaper than copy, but copy will work. Make a copy of yam and call it sz. Surprise, it is now sz and works as such. It takes advantage of the first argument being the program name itself and uses that to determine how it will behave. The advantage of using Pro-YAM for this is that the extra features that aren't in the normal distribution (like Zmodem compression) ARE in the Pro-YAM program. -- \ Grant DeLorean (grant@bluemoon.uucp) {n8emr|nstar}!bluemoon!grant / "You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence."-C.A. Beard