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- Subject: Re: Second Monitor
- Message-ID: <92325.091525NU013809@NDSUVM1.BITNET>
- From: Greg Wettstein <NU013809@NDSUVM1.BITNET>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 09:15:25 CST
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- Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computer Network
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- My newsreader does not include text but this is a followup to the
- gentleman who would use kermit if it could do rz/sz.
-
- First of all the new kermit protocols with large block sizes and sliding
- windows is not the dog of yesteryear. It may not be as speedy as zmodem
- but it is close and it is embedded in kermit.
-
- Secondly it is very easy to start a zmodem transfer from within kermit
- provided that you have a slightly older version of rs/sz. You have to
- know of course which serial port you are using. Start, for example, sz
- on the remote to begin a download, then escape back to the kermit
- prompt with ^-π C (CNTRL backslash, then the letter c). At the kermit
- prompt type the following: ! rz </dev/ttys0 >/dev/ttys0
-
- The complete command line should look like this:
-
- C-Kermit>! rz </dev/ttys0 >/dev/ttys0
-
- Note that ttys0 refers to the first serial port, if you were on the second
- the device would be /dev/ttys1 etc...
-
- When the download finishes you will be returned to the Kermit prompt,
- type connect to get back to the remote host.
-
- Rumor has it that newer versions of rz/sz have been intentionally crippled
- by its author to prevent I/O redirection from being used like this. I
- cannot attest to this personally but have heard it from a couple of places.
- If this is true another sterling example of why the kermit protocol should
- be used. Mr. Forsberg seems to have a history of wanting the Zmodem
- protocol to become the public standard but doesn't want things to be too
- free. Just my opinion of course.
-
- Good luck. The new kermits (we are using 186) have an extraordinary
- amount of features built into them. Solid, proven software.
-
- As always,
- Dr. G.W. Wettstein
- Oncology Research Division Computing Facility
- Fargo Clinic / MeritCare
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