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- From: galway@chtm.eece.unm.edu (Denis McKeon)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Zmodem with MS-Kermit
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 93 17:23:49 MST
- Organization: Connemara - Computing for People
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- In article <1993Jan2.173121.7462@starbase.trincoll.edu> you write:
- >This is probably heresy, but I'm an enthusiastic MS-Kermit
- >user who would like to use Zmodem. Any way of doing that?
- >
- >Since I don't read this newsgroup, please reply via e-mail.
-
- I hope you do the right thing by posting a summary back to the newsgroup.
- (I Bcc'd this to the poster as well as posting it to the newsgroup.)
-
- Assuming that you want to continue using Kermit, but to add z-modem
- for file transfers, which is what I did as of a few weeks ago,
- what you can do to get started with Z-modem is:
-
- Get the zmodem file transfer software - which is actually called DSZ -
- strictly speaking "zmodem" is only the protocol. Find the recent
- version of Nov. 11 '92: DSZ1109.ZIP and install it on your DOS system.
-
- You can call the developer's BBS at 503-621-3746, or look on the simtel
- mirror sites, or at:
-
- ftp.uu.net /systems/ibmpc/msdos/simtel20/zmodem/dsz1109.zip
-
- Read the big dsz.doc file, which has a section on co-operation between
- Kermit and dsz, (amid a wealth of other datacomm & modem info), and
- which suggests adding something like these:
-
- define rz run dsz F ha on port 2 speed 57600 pY129 rz -r
- define sx run dsz F port 2 sx 1 2,define 1,define 2,
- define sz run dsz F ha bo port 2 pY129 pB4096 sz 1 2,define 1,define 2,
- define t run dsz F ha on port 2 pY129 t -r
- ^^^
- to your mskermit.ini file, with appropriate changes for speed, port
- & path (dsz should either be in your PATH or specified where the ^^^ is).
- Also, add something like these to your autoexec.bat or a specific batch file:
-
- set DSZPORT=2
- set DSZLOG=c:/dszlog
-
- Once you've done that, you can start an 'sz' process on the remote
- host, escape to Kermit's command prompt, type 'rz' and stretch a bit
- while the files stream in.
-
- A warning: You will probably find several dozen associated programs at
- the ftp sites. All you need for file transfer is dsz - the others are
- optional extras. If you want to check them out, look first at the
- recent zip files beginning with DSZ, GSZ, YAM, and ZCOMM, and look for
- the "Omen Technology" name as you unpack them.
-
- I may sound peckish about this, but I downloaded (by telnet) and
- unpacked about 3 MB of software (because I didn't know which package was
- which) only to find that I only needed about 300K of what I grabbed!
- If I had had to use a slower download method I might have grabbed less,
- but sorting through all the little packages (one of which had zip-files
- within zip-files!) was a bit of a pain.
-
- 2nd warning - the complexity level in the dsz program, options, and
- documentation is high (at least for the typical DOS user, less so for a
- long-time Unix user). The complexity reflects the flexibility and
- configurability of the program, and you can freely ignore most of the
- complexity, BUT DO look at the 'getting started' and Kermit sections of
- the documentation. Once you get it set up and working the
- ease-of-use is also very high. I am quite satisfied.
-
- Finally, DSZ is shareware, and I found it well worth spending $20
- to register it & support the process. I hope you do too.
-
- --
- Denis McKeon
- galway@chtm.eece.unm.edu
-
- QED: Quit and Eat Dinner
-