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From: hartung@amos.ling.ucsd.edu (Jeff Hartung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Telix and file transfers
Summary: Up/downloads often fail
Keywords: Telix, X/Y/Zmodem, file transfers, yuck
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Date: 24 Apr 89 23:11:38 GMT
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Hello,

In the recent discussions about Procomm, someone mentioned Telix, so I
decided to look around for it.  I found it at SIMTEL20, so I downloaded
the files (sorry, I don't have the version handy!) and tried it out.
In many ways, I liked it quite a bit, especially as compared to
Procomm, but there were some problems with file transfers that I
encountered and I can't seem to solve them.

Because I didn't have X, Y or Z modem available here, I FTP'd the
source for X/Y/Zmodem from uunet.uu.net and compiled it.  (The problem
*might* be with sz, rz, etc. and not Telix.)  Anyhow, the first thing I
tried was downloading a small file from the VAX.  The download failed
with the Zmodem protocol, but worked fine with Xmodem and Ymodem (sx &
sb) just fine.  Kermit also failed to download.  I then tried to upload
a file, and found that Zmodem and Kermit would work, but Ymodem and
Xmodem didn't work.

Since then, I've found that there are exceptions to the above rules when only
Kermit will upload, or *nothing* will download, but if I use Kermit 2.32/A,
then the file transfers work great.  However, they also take up more than
twice the time that they would with Zmodem, which is what I really want to
use.

Is this:
	(a) A problem with Telix?
	(b) A problem with the X/Y/ZModem source code from UUNET?
	(c) A problem with the protocols themselves (i.e. this frequently
	    happens with Z-modem transfers...)?
	(d) A combination of the above?
	(e) None of the above (e.g. I'm doing something wrong, some other
	    factor is the source of my problems, etc.)

Thanks in advance for any help that anyone might have.  I'd *REALLY*
like to speed up my file transfers.  Oh, by the way, I have to use
parity set to space, 7 data bits, one stop bit, or my screen prints
garbage when I login.  Is this the problem?  Some binary files *have*
downloaded with the Y-modem protocol successfully, but others get stuck
about halfway.

 --Jeff Hartung--  	
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