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Article #46Re: Possible Zmodem bug?
From: chen Lawrence The Dreamer Chen
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1989 00:56
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1989 00:56
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In article <1514@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> paquette@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Trevor Paquette) writes:
> I think I have found a bug in Zmodem and was wondering if anyone has a fix
> for it. The problem is this: I have the latest version of rz/sz (3.03) and
> have compiled it for a Sun4 running Sun OS 4.0.1 ('make bsd'). I can xfer
> all files using zmodem just fine and dandy but it can't seem to handle
> 'ZOO' files. This is specific to the Sun only. Now I don't know if this
> is a problem with the BSD version of rz/sz or a problem with the OS itself.
> I can send ZOO files from a local BBS here just fine, but I can't do it
> with ZOO files from our Unix system.
> Has anyone else encountered this problem? and if so do you have some sort
> of fix?
>
Yes, I've encountered the problem....its because SZ looks at the first 6(?)
characters is a file to decide if you should send it as ascii or binary.
Unfortunately, the first 16 characters of a ZOO archive are
'ZOO 2.00 Archive'....all ASCII....so Zmodem thinks its ASCII and sends it
as ASCII.
There's a binary option switch....I think its '-b'. I don't use Zmodem much.
> Oh yeah.. These are the errors that I get on my end (the recieving end) of
> the xfer (I am using JrComm and an Amiga 2000):
> Data subpacket length to long & Garbage count exceeded
>
How are you connected? When I get it, I suspect its mostly a result of
Develnet or DECnet. I've never had any problems doing the tranferrs with
the Amiga 1000's directly hooked up to the Suns. But, lots from home.
> Trev
>
>
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!alberta!calgary!!chen From: chen@.ucalgary.ca (Lawrence [The Dreamer] Chen) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Possible Zmodem bug? Summary: use binary switch Keywords: zmodem unix zoo_files Message-ID: <1517@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> Date: 16 Jun 89 00:56:13 GMT References: <1514@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> Sender: news@calgary.UUCP Reply-To: chen@Daffy.FhHosp.AB.CA (Lawrence [The Dreamer] Chen) Organization: U. of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Lines: 46