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- From: drascic@ie.utoronto.ca (SpIke)
- Subject: Re: ZModem
- Message-ID: <C01I9I.40q@ie.utoronto.ca>
- Organization: University of Toronto, Department of Industrial Engineering
- References: <1992Dec28.195218.14375@cc.umontreal.ca>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 21:27:18 GMT
- Lines: 45
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- soubyran@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Soubyran Richard) writes:
-
-
- >Hello sgiers!
-
- >I have avery weird problem... When I am using zmodem (sz) to
- >transfer files between my Mac and the Indigo, the transfer hangs
- >and quit when there is only 6 seconds left in the transfer. This
- >problem exist only since we have changed the OS last summer. We
- >were running version 3 of IRIX back then. a few weeks ago, we
- >changed to IRIX 4.0.5 and now the transfer hangs just at 3 seconds
- >from the end... That's VERY strange...
-
- >Before upgrading to IRIX 3 something, everything was fine! When I
- >use Kermit, no problems at all... The tech support at our
- >university is no good at all...
-
- > "We don't know what's wrong."
- > "We do not have that problem here in the office"
- > etc
-
- >is all they can say.
-
- >One more thing... this problem occurs only if the file is big
- >enough to make the transfer go over 60 seconds. Any file less than
- >that... no problems...
-
- SZ(1) RISC/os Reference Manual SZ(1)
-
- NAME
- sx, sb, sz - XMODEM, YMODEM, ZMODEM file send
-
- BUGS
- On at least one BSD system, sz would abend it got within a
- few kilobytes of the end of file. Using the "-w 8192" flag
- fixed the problem. The real cause is unknown, perhaps a bug
- in the kernel TTY output routines.
-
- I've found that using this magic flag works for me on my system; it may also
- work for you. Good luck!
-
- David Drascic
- Teleoperation and Control Laboratory, Industrial Engineering
- University of Toronto
- drascic@ie.utoronto.ca
-