Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!samsung!uunet!eeocdt!darrell From: darrell@eeocdt.UUCP (Darrell Tschakert) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: Can zmodem be used from a Unix box to a BBS on a PC? Message-ID: <192@eeocdt.UUCP> Date: 27 Jun 91 23:01:40 GMT References: <1991Jun21.130809.22536@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1991Jun24.215626.9705@chinet.chi.il.us> Reply-To: darrell@eeocdt.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) Organization: Equal Emplyment Opportunity Comm, Washinton D.C. Lines: 32 In article <1991Jun24.215626.9705@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes: >In article <1991Jun21.130809.22536@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> slee@isis.cs.du.edu (Seng-Poh Lee, Speedy) 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. ... ... > >Most cu's leave a process reading from the remote tty line during the > ~! and ~$ escapes so you normally can't run file transfer protocols >as a shell escape. ... ... The NCR Tower 600's with OS 2.00.00 has a nice added feature along the lines of what you are discussing here. While in cu you can enter ~putz, ~takez, ~takex, ~putx, ~dnld, and upld in addition to the usual take and put. the putz, takez, putx, and takex work with rz and sz on the other end. These functions work quite well and are very usefull. Prior to putz I had to put the file and then sum both the origional and the copy to see if I got across OK. Now I am confident that it always gets accross. the ...z functions work with binary files just as well as ascii. This really makes updating individual field offices a snap. Darrell Tschakert uunet!eeocdt!darrell >> Darrell Tschakert >> Phone: >> >> Equal Employment Opportunity Commision >> (202) 663-4436 >> >> 1801 L Street N.W. >> Email to >> >> Washington D.C. 20507 >> uunet!eeocdt!darrell >> .