[comp.sys.atari.st] Uniterm & Xmodem

vsnyder@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Van Snyder) (03/21/91)

In article <7190@bgsuvax.UUCP> jbernat@bgsuvax.UUCP (Jim Bernatowicz) writes:
>From article <1991Mar20.114315.19825@watdragon.waterloo.edu>, by badorion@watyew.uwaterloo.ca (Brian A. Dorion):
>
>...  If you
>are using Kermit to Xfer files from a Vax, you may wish to look for
>sx,sb,sz (Send Xmodem, Batch (Ymodem), Zmodem, respectively.)  Also,
>rx,rb,rz are the receive counterparts.  Once I found these, I found
>Kermit to be too annoying and slow to deal with.

If you use Xmodem, make sure to use no handshaking or CTS/RTS handshaking.
Xmodem uses an 8-bit binary block number, starting at zero.  When it gets up
to ^S, the connection shuts down if you're using X-on/X-off handshaking.

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