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- From: ravn@imada.ou.dk (Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen)
- Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives
- Subject: Re: *** WHAT'S THE BEST COMM PROTOCOL ***
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.171324.2827@imada.ou.dk>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 17:13:24 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.181829.4391@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> <1992Dec22.140352.26232@tellab5.tellabs.com>
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- Organization: Dept. of Math. & Computer Science, Odense University, Denmark
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- toth@tellabs.com (Joseph G. Toth Jr.) writes:
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- >I have looked at the man page and help output for xmodem, and do not
- >see any way of altering it to avoid the XON/XOFF problem. If it's
- >there, I'm sure we'll hear about it.
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- I am using ZMODEM through a network controller which uses ascii 30 to
- do an escape to command-mode. Therefore I use the sz/rz -e option,
- which basically avoids using codes less than 32 -- this also avoids the
- XON/XOFF problem (I believe).
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- As it converts these characters to two character sequences, the transfer
- get longer -- but works without a hitch.
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- Please note that this ONLY applies to rz/sz programs which implements
- this particular feature of ZMODEM. I believe ZMODEM to be the most
- simple protocol to implement; kermit may be smarter but still _very_
- difficult to get right when having routines in your own programs.
- --
- Thorbj{\o}rn Andersen | "I will not accept being a member of a club, which
- ravn@imada.ou.dk | would accept me as a member." -- Groucho Marx.
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