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From: perry@key.COM (Perry The Cynic)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Wanted: tip/zmodem usage info
Keywords: tip zmodem
Message-ID: <1526@key.COM>
Date: 9 Mar 90 02:10:04 GMT
References: <10951@sundc.East.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: perry@arkon.key.COM (Perry The Cynic)
Organization: Key Computer Laboratories, Fremont
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In article <10951@sundc.East.Sun.COM> jback@trine.East.Sun.COM writes:
> I would like to hear from anyone who has been successful in implementing the
> Zmodem protocol from within tip.  Seems that there was an article about this
> awhile back and I lost it in the suffle...  Thanks in advance...

Simple solution: get yourself a zmodem-capable protocol driver like rz/sz
(from Omen Tech). Tip to your target machine. To send a file using zmodem,
initiate a zmodem receive on the remote, then enter
	~Csz myfiles
and off you go. (~C "connects" a program to the remote by settings its
standard input and output to the modem line.)

If you want to build zmodem "into" tip, the easiest way would be to hardcode
this as a new command (~Z or whatever). I don't see any need to hardcode
the actual zmodem protocol into tip, unless you want to deliver such a tip
to your customers. (If you want to please your customers, throw away tip and
put out a *real* telecomm program.)
  -- perry
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