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From: davidl@intelob.biin.com (David Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: UNIX-side support for ZMODEM
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Date: 6 Feb 89 14:35:48 GMT
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I use my modem mostly for downloading from my UNIX system.  I've been
using the old reliable combination of [n]xbin and macput on the UNIX
end and MacTerminal on the Mac end for years.  One place this
combination falls down is in downloading over high-speed (9600+ baud)
direct-connect lines, whose throughput is little better than 2400 baud
equivalent.

So I thought I'd try the recently-posted ZTerm to get better
throughput.  Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to send the
*.{info,data,rsrc} triad produced by xbin to a single Mac file
via sz --> ZTerm.  Downloading the BinHex file via ZTerm and
unBinHexing it on the Mac end is not an acceptable solution, because
the BinHex files are enough larger than the binaries to wipe out the
throughput gain.

Is there a program or shellscript to make downloading from UNIX to
ZTerm as easy as xbin --> macput --> MacTerminal?  The missing program
would seem to be either a replacement for xbin that would create a
MacBinary file for sz, or a replacement for macput that would assemble
an {info,data,rsrc} triad into a single MacBinary file and upload it.

(By the way, if none of this makes sense to you, just ignore it.)

Thanks in the proverbial advance,

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