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From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: xyzmodem problems
Message-ID: <774@omen.UUCP>
Date: 24 May 89 18:50:34 GMT
References: <890518.08250297.029229@CRC.CP6>
Reply-To: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
Organization: Omen Technology Inc, Portland Oregon
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In article <890518.08250297.029229@CRC.CP6> THOMAS_ERSKINE@DOCCRC.BITNET writes:
:Your problem isn't with X/Y/Z modem; your problem is with the Develnet
:switch.  Unless your communications people have disabled the
:speed/parity/code conversion stuff in the switch, it *needs* to be
:able to throttle the line, and it will use XON/OFF.  I don't think you
:can tell it to use anything else.  You'll have to tell Zmodem to quote
:them or use Kermit.  Kermit with long (>=1000) isn't that bad.  If
:Zmodem can be convinced to only quote XON/XOFF, then it should be
:faster, but I seem to remember that it wants to quote all
:un-printables, or none.

Actually, ZMODEM escapes XON, XOFF, and DLE in both parities.
This is explained in the ZMODEM protocol document, which
one can read before making possibly inaccurate statements
about ZMODEM.

Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX          ...!tektronix!reed!omen!caf 
Author of YMODEM, ZMODEM, Professional-YAM, ZCOMM, and DSZ
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