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From: normt@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Norman R Tiedemann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: UNIX-side support for ZMODEM
Summary: Creating MacBinary from *.{info, data, rsrc}
Message-ID: <11672@ihlpa.ATT.COM>
Date: 13 Feb 89 18:43:11 GMT
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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> > 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.  
> 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

This may work, but in looking at the code for macbin.c, it looks 
like there are some special cases for "zeros". In any case I have 
a copy of a program called macbin.c which runs on a Unix machine
and takes the three files *.{info, rsrc, data} and converts them 
into a single *.bin file for downloading. This is in MacBinary format.

This program was originally written by Jim Budler, I have version 2.4
dated April 3, 1987. 

If anyone want a copy of this I will gladly send it to them, if there is
lots of requests I will post it.


My question is where can I find "sz". Obviously it is a "send ZMODEM"
command. Is this just a shell script or a program, and how can I get
it.
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