Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!comcon!roy From: roy@comcon.UUCP (Roy M. Silvernail) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: pcz21189.arc, PcConnect Zmodem v2.11, a free Zmodem, 1of2 Summary: Has a bug in the Zmodem implementation Keywords: xmodem,xmodem-1K,ymodem,zmodem,sealink Message-ID: <236@comcon.UUCP> Date: 4 Jan 90 14:44:55 GMT References: <21954@adm.BRL.MIL> Organization: Computer Connection - Anchorage, Alaska Lines: 23 In article <21954@adm.BRL.MIL>, w8sdz@tacom-emh1.army.mil (Keith Petersen) writes: > This is PCZ v2.11.89, dated Dec. 1, 1989. It is a free for non-profit > use (see enclosed license) implementation of Zmodem, Xmodem, Xmodem-1K, > Sealink, Ymodem for the IBM PC family. It will allow users of > communications software that does not internally implement these > protocols to access them through this external program. I just tried out PCZ. While it looks pretty good on a good transfer, the resumption feature is flawed. I interrupted a transfer from my Unix site, and upon restarting, PCZ reported the existing file and said it was appending. What I got was 2 files... the first, aborted transfer, in a file names BA0, and the remainder of the original file (contents of the second transfer) in a file named BAZ (the correct original filename). Not quite what I had expected... -- _R_o_y _M_. _S_i_l_v_e_r_n_a_i_l | UUCP: uunet!comcon!roy | "Every race must arrive at this #include ;#define opinions MINE | point in its history" SnailMail: P.O. Box 210856, Anchorage, | ........Mr. Slippery Alaska, 99521-0856, U.S.A., Earth, etc. |