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In article <8259@cbmvax.UUCP> valentin@cbmvax.UUCP (Valentin Pepelea) writes:
   In article <89294.123406GIAMPAL@AUVM.BITNET> GIAMPAL@AUVM.BITNET writes:
   >While on the subject of X, Y, and Z modem protocols, has any one
   >ever seen/used any of these under CMS on an IBM mainframe?  Kermit
   >is terribly frustrating and something like this would be helpful
   >to many I'm sure.

   The problem with transfering files to and from IBM mainframes is
   that characters on the IBM side are not stored in ASCII format but
   trather in EBCDIC (pronounced "epsodic") format. The result is that
   only a character based transfer, such as Kermit, can do the job.

This happens only if you request character set translation to occur.
If you do a binary transfer, you should be able to transfer .ZOO files
and such as unformatted binary files under CMS...

Since some protocol converters can become ``transparent'' (as if done
with CMS Kermit), it seems reasonable that someone could write a
zyx-modem program for CMS...

	...tad