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From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith.z100
Subject: Re: ZComm for Z-100
Keywords: help, communication, xmodem, protocol, async
Message-ID: <767@omen.UUCP>
Date: 18 May 89 19:53:49 GMT
References: <105355@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Omen Technology Inc, Portland Oregon
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In article <105355@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> alpope@token.Sun.COM (Alan Pope) writes:
:
:Last year I fetched a comm program off of the Clarkson bulletin board
:taht was called ZComm.  This looked like a promising package but had
:some bugs and several unimplemented features.  The man pages had a 
:phone number where to call the author but I had no luck.  Anyone
:know of a more recent copy of this package?  where the author is these
:days?  or where I could get hold of the source code? (I'll finish it up
:myself if I can get the source).  Much thanks!
:						Alan L. Pope
:						alpope@sun.com

ZCOMM is a powerful shareware comms program for PCDOS machines
developed by Omen Technology INC.

Unfortunately, no Z-100 flavor of ZCOMM exists.  IBM's poor
BIOS/DOS design forces ZCOMM (and most PC comms programs)
to access hardware directly, precluding operation on
semi-compatible machines.

Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX          ...!tektronix!reed!omen!caf 
Author of YMODEM, ZMODEM, Professional-YAM, ZCOMM, and DSZ
  Omen Technology Inc    "The High Reliability Software"
17505-V NW Sauvie IS RD   Portland OR 97231   503-621-3406
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