Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pasteur!ames!coherent!dplatt From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: UNIX-side support for ZMODEM Message-ID: <20162@coherent.com> Date: 7 Feb 89 18:24:58 GMT References: Reply-To: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt) Distribution: na Organization: Coherent Thought Inc., Palo Alto CA Lines: 28 In article davidl@intelob.biin.com (David Levine) writes: > 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. The MacBinary standard is very similar to the old "triad" standard originally used by MacTerminal, and emulated by macput. The major difference between the MacTerminal protocol and MacBinary is that the MacTerminal protocol sends the info, data, and rsrc "forks" as individual XMODEM files; MacBinary sends 'em all together. So, you should be able to do the follows: cat foo.info foo.data foo.rsrc >/tmp/foo sz /tmp/foo No guarantees... but, as I read the MacBinary standard, this should work just fine. -- Dave Platt FIDONET: Dave Platt on 1:204/444 VOICE: (415) 493-8805 UUCP: ...!{ames,sun,uunet}!coherent!dplatt DOMAIN: dplatt@coherent.com INTERNET: coherent!dplatt@ames.arpa, ...@sun.com, ...@uunet.uu.net USNAIL: Coherent Thought Inc. 3350 West Bayshore #205 Palo Alto CA 94303