Xref: utzoo alt.bbs:5950 comp.dcom.modems:10613 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!mdisea!gix From: gix@MDI.COM (Brian Gix) Newsgroups: alt.bbs,comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: Can zmodem be used from a Unix box to a BBS on a PC? Message-ID: <1991Jun26.162101.23173@MDI.COM> Date: 26 Jun 91 16:21:01 GMT References: <1991Jun21.130809.22536@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> Sender: news@MDI.COM Organization: Motorola, Mobile Data Division - Seattle, WA Lines: 29 In article <1991Jun21.130809.22536@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> slee@isis.cs.du.edu (Seng-Poh Lee, Speedy) writes: >In article 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. > I have been able to successfully rz/sz over a tip link from a sun... It was without a modem (a straight rs232 connection) but I don't think it would be a problem as long as your running in 8-bit mode. I did it using the ~C "connect program to remote host" escape, which connects stdin & stdout of whatever command you call to the port. I did this with minimal problems... --Brian Gix gix@mdi.com -- ================================================================================ | Brian Gix | gix@mdi.com gixb@jacobs.cs.orst.edu | | Motorola - MDD | gix@nwnexus.wa.com ...!uunet!mdisea!gix | | Bothell, WA 98011 USA | AmOnline: GIX Phone: (206) 487-5894 |