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From: ingea@IFI.UIO.NO (Inge Arnesen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Zmodem setup (sz/rz)
Message-ID: <CMM.0.88.631874416.ingea@svarte.uio.no>
Date: 9 Jan 90 08:40:16 GMT
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>Could somebody (to save me alot of time) please give me a sample setup
>on both sides and a step by step guide to establishing a link and starting
>/completing a file transfer with zmodem(sz/rz).
I use C-Kermit together with Z-modem in my system. I use C-Kermit to call
the remote site, log in, and all the usual stuff, but when I want to 
transfer a file, I start sz on the remote site:

SUN:/usr/iba $ sz thisfile.txt

After entering this command, I hit ^\-C to get C-Kermit out of the terminal
emulator mode and back to the command mode. In command mode, I write:

C-KERMIT>! zrec

which makes C-Kermit fork and execute a shell script by the name of zrec.
zrec contains the following:

$ cat zrec
rz < /dev/tty1A > /dev/tty1A
$ _

Which just makes rz use tty1A as the serial tty.

For sending, I do the same thing, except that I start "rz" on the remote 
site and starts sz locally:

C-KERMIT>! zsend localfile.o

where zsend is pretty much like zrec:

$ cat zsend
sz < /dev/tty1A > /dev/tty1A
$ _


Of course this gets more complicated if you have more than one modem,
but the basic prinsiple is the same: Use Kermit og cu to log in, and
start sz / rz through a script started from cu or Kermit.



Inge (BoB)  { ingea@ifi.uio.no }
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==   Inge Arnesen, University of Oslo, Norway.                         ==
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