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From: dcw@lcs.mit.edu (David C. Whitney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Ymodem batch
Keywords: XMODEM, SUNOS
Message-ID: <1990Feb22.143217.4624@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 22 Feb 90 14:32:17 GMT
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In article <2520@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> demarco@cs-sun-fsb.UUCP (Vince Demarco) writes:
>In article <2905@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu> yk4@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Yong Su Kim) writes:
>>I would like to do some binary file transfers between the UNIX system
>>and my GS. I am using Kermit to do this at the moment but it is too
>>slow.
>>I have a version of xmodem which has ymodem send and receive
>>capabilitis, but the receive capability does not work. Whenever I try to
>>upload binary files to the UNIX system, I get ACK errors within
>>Proterm.
>>Does anyone have a version of ymodem batch which works on a SunOS
>>system?
>
>
>Sorry, X/Y/Z/Modem won't work under SunOS...   SunOS insists on sending a
>NUL (Ox00) after its EOL character (let me guess, you get errors on block
>10 of the transfer right?)  I've tried everything to keep it from doing this
>(My OS is SunOS 4.something, on both Sun 3 and 4 systems), but it refuses to
>oblige me.  The SysAdm here suggested recompiling the xmodem program using
>the Sys V thingies..  I did, and it still didn't work...  maybe you'll have
>better luck (I've tried with the same results with xmodem, umodem, rz and sz
>from Omen (Unix BSD Makefile), so I doubt if you'll be able to get it running)

Ooh boy.

I've never had any problem running rz/sz on our sun 4 running sunos
4.0.3.  I also used the BSD make. Are you trying to run through a
terminal concentrator or something? That was my problem some time ago.
The concentrator was not passing $18's through. There was a switch to
set on the concentrator and BOOM! all happy. (I type "term download"
before connecting to the sun.)
--
Dave Whitney
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