cliffb@isavax.isa.com (cliff bedore*) (02/15/90)
I have a need for a program that will act like cu except that it must accept Xmodem/Ymodem file transfers. Is there such an animal? where how much etc? Something like Procomm or Modem7 would be fine. (I'd prefer that it understand the locking mechanisms of cu and uucp but not absolutely required) Thanks Cliff
foote@miro.Berkeley.EDU (Bill Foote) (02/19/90)
In article <1990Feb15.134535.2355@isavax.isa.com> cliffb@isavax.isa.com (cliff bedore*) writes: >I have a need for a program that will act like cu except that it must accept >Xmodem/Ymodem file transfers. Is there such an animal? where how much etc? > Well, I've managed to get the rz/sz programs (available from the comp.sources.unix archive on uunet.uu.net) to accept zmodem downloads. Here's what I do: 1. Use kermit to dial to the remote system 2. Invoke sz to send the file (i.e. sz -b foo) 3. Get back to the kermit> prompt and fork a subshell 4. Give the command "rz < /dev/tty1a > /dev/tty1a" to my local system (/dev/tty1a is the port that my modem is connected to) I fork the subshell rather than quitting out of kermit so that kermit will maintain the lock files for me. I realize that this is a pretty obscene way of doing this, but it works. The usage command that I get from "sz -help" says something about a command line argument for use with cu, but I didn't feel like investigating. BTW, kermit is available from /communications on anonymous ftp from uunet.uu.net. I bet that there's a better way to do this. Good luck! Bill Foote foote@miro.berkeley.edu
Dion_L_Johnson@cup.portal.com (02/26/90)
Cliff Bedore asked: >I have a need for a program that will act like cu except that it must accept >Xmodem/Ymodem file transfers. Is there such an animal? where how much etc? >Something like Procomm or Modem7 would be fine. (I'd prefer that it >understand the locking mechanisms of cu and uucp but not absolutely >required) >Thanks, Cliff > You might like to look at ECU from Warren Tucker. It was posted in alt.sources. It is similar to cu, but has x/zmodem (and kermit) file transfer, plus a lot of other goodies. Warren has it ported for SCO UNIX as well as XENIX. More like procomm, and having file transfer capabilities is pcomm, posted in <something>.sources last year. Commercially, there are things like TERM (Century Software), BLAST (Comm. Research Group), and Pro-YAM (Omen Technology). These are listed in the new SCO System V Directory. - Dion [In real life, dionj@sco.com]