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Re: UNIX-side support for ZMODEM

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From: Dave Platt
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 1989 18:24
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In article <DAVIDL.89Feb6093548@intelob.biin.com> davidl@intelob.biin.com (David Levine) writes:

> So I thought I'd try the recently-posted ZTerm to get better
> throughput.  Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to send the
> *.{info,data,rsrc} triad produced by xbin to a single Mac file
> via sz --> ZTerm.  Downloading the BinHex file via ZTerm and
> unBinHexing it on the Mac end is not an acceptable solution, because
> the BinHex files are enough larger than the binaries to wipe out the
> throughput gain.

The MacBinary standard is very similar to the old "triad" standard
originally used by MacTerminal, and emulated by macput.  The major
difference between the MacTerminal protocol and MacBinary is that the
MacTerminal protocol sends the info, data, and rsrc "forks" as
individual XMODEM files;  MacBinary sends 'em all together.

So,  you should be able to do the follows:

	cat foo.info foo.data foo.rsrc >/tmp/foo
	sz /tmp/foo

No guarantees... but, as I read the MacBinary standard, this should work
just fine.
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From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
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Subject: Re: UNIX-side support for ZMODEM
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Date: 7 Feb 89 18:24:58 GMT
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