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From: LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: YMODEM problems
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Date: 26 Feb 90 22:40:11 GMT
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As a followup to my earlier posting about using X,Y,ZMODEM from
within MS KERMIT 3.0, although MS KERMIT does cause odd behavior
from the other protocols (actually, ZMODEM seems to work OK), the
main problem seems to be in YMODEM.

I have been trying to use a program called RCOMM (from SIMTEL) to
enable me to download files from a VAX in the background, while
doing other stuff on my PC. On the VAX, I have a version of X/YMODEM
obtained from SIMTEL, in file RBSB.C.

When using YMODEM to send files in batch mode, while this usually
works, sometimes it screws up. Either a file gets truncated, or else
the received file is only vaguely similar to the original. Bits get
transposed, repeated etc. All the while, RCOMM is beeping at me
about a data communication error. Since the problems are repeatable
(the same thing occurs every time when a file transfer doesn't
work), there must be some problem with the YMODEM transfer.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Richard Stanton