reynhout@cs.uri.edu (Andrew) (06/05/91)
[I originally posted this to comp.unix.questions, but now I realise that this is probably the more appropriate place to ask, so... If this is a repeat for you, I apologise.] Greetings. I'm looking for some help on a zmodem (or x/ymodem, at this point!) program for SunOS. I ftped sz from uunet, and then tried rzsz from nova.cc.purdue.edu, per one respondent's suggestion, but I can't seem to persuade them to work. (btw- they're the same software package, but the one on nova is slightly more recent. They both date to early 1989.) In the makefile, it says to read over a few .c files and make any necessary changes for different or hybrid implementations. I understand that SunOS is a hybrid of BSD and SysV, leaning more toward SysV...but I don't begin to know what that translates into in terms of libraries and such. The software sup- plies five (six in the one from nova) different OSes that it knows how to make itself for (NeXT, Xenix, 386 Xenix, 4.xBSD/Ultrix/V7, SYSTEM 5.3 Unix with mkdir(2), and SYSTEM 3/5 Unix [sic]) I tried compiling as SysVr3 w/ mkdir(2), but it didn't work. Then I tried System 3/5, it didn't work. Getting desperate, I tried the BSD default. Needless to say, I was without success. I'm running SunOS 4.1.1 on a sun3. Other machines that I might conceivably want to run sz on are running SunOS 4.0. I'm not entirely certain what kind of machine they are, since uname doesn't seem to work on them. So, anyway, I'm looking for either an already-compiled copy of rz/sz that works as intended under the configuration described above, OR some pointers as to what to do to make sz/rz compile properly, OR another software package entirely that WILL compile properly. For what it's worth, rz/sz compiles as expected...it just doesn't work. I checked to make sure that all the important CHARACTERS were passing (I was worried that my connect scheme was eating the high bit or something like that). Any help would be most appreciated. Thx, Andrew PS: Thanks to those that have already responded. A few people expressed that they, too, are having this problem. Others suggested that I might have an old version of sz (one pointed me to the rzsz at nova,) but so far I've been no more successful than before.