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From: ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: xyzmodem problems
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Date: 23 May 89 04:06:07 GMT
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>  Hmm, something is wrong with 340. I run Xenix and also use Zmodem 
>  to download/upload from a dos machine that's hard port connected @9600
>  and via a TrialBlazier. On hard connected I see 928cps, modem I see
>  910cps. Haven't tried 19.2k yet.

My connection is quite a bit more complex.

ATT 6310 ==> line driver ==> leased line ==> data switch ==> Develnet ==>
	black hole ==> {SUN | VAX}

If anyone is interested, I'll try to generate precise numbers.

Having cobbled Sandy Z's CU to work with Zmodem, I've come to use it
for most bulk file transfers. I run kermit when I need script
capabilities. CU also does something, I'm not sure what, that makes its
use as a terminal program very sluggish. kermit is far better on this.

Over this link, I've had poor results with kermit and binary files. In
fact, I've not been able to get reliable binary transfers unless I use
an ascii coding scheme (uuencode, etc.). Zmodem goes fine. I've had no
luck whatsoever in {SUN|VAX} ==> MSDOS downloads with binary files
unless I go to ascii coding.

I've tried a variety of parity settings without luck on {SUN|VAX} ->
MSDOS transfers.

I will supply the hacked version of CU upon request. Aside from adding
an interface to zmodem, I've added a ~C directory command to allow
changing the current working directory on the local machine, and a
command that allows the escape character to be changed to something
other than a tilde. (I have a dumb [moronic] terminal without a tilde.)

I will only honor requests mailed to ucbvax!ucdavis!ucdked!cck that
give a proper return address in bang!bang!bang format relative to
ucbvax. My standard shipping format is tar | compress | uuencode.

NOTE BENE (means "note this well" in Latin) if you use the [rR] command
to make your request, you'll be using the wrong address, and while the
message will get to me, it will be filed in /dev/null!

Earl H. Kinmonth
History Department
University of California, Davis
Davis, California  95616
916-752-1636 (2300-0800 PDT for FAX)
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