[comp.sys.mac.comm] White Knight Zmodem question

pmeyer@pima.intel.com (Paul Meyer) (02/20/91)

	I just received my White Knight upgrade from RR 10.3.  So far
I'm satisfied, although it seems more similar to Red Ryder than I
expected. Somehow I hoped for radical change.  But it works well
(except possibly for my question below), and I don't have to rewrite
all my procedures, so I can't complain.

	I only have one problem.  I could very well be doing something
wrong, but I can't figure it out, and the manual is not helpful:

	I'm transfering text files from my Ultrix system to my Mac
using the Zmodem protocol.  I get no carriage returns coming through.
I can see that they are in the original file by 'enumerating' the
carriage return and linefeeds (ascii 13 and 10) in the 'terminal
filter'.  I see <10>'s and <13>'s coming through fine on the screen
when I 'more' the file.  When I set up the 'file transfer filter' the
same way, zmodem allows through the <10>'s, but no <13>'s.  I can't
find anyplace that I am stripping out carriage returns.  I am NOT
stripping them in the filter, I am explicitely letting them pass
through, or enumerating them.  They don't make it.

	Thinking maybe somehow I had screwed up my filters, I tried
Kermit, which should also use the file transfer filters.  Kermit works
just fine, sending through line feeds and carriage returns.  When I
strip out line feeds in the file transfer filter, they are removed in
Kermit transfers, and carriage returns pass just fine. But when I
immediately transfer the same file with the same exact settings
through Zmodem, the linefeeds are stripped correctly, but there are no
carriage returns.

	I'm using 'sz' on my Ultrix machine, and it has always sent
files correctly before using Zterm 0.85, and I've never noticed a
stripping of carriage returns.  Is it the Ultrix end that is screwing
up?  Is there a newer or better implementation of Zmodem for Ultrix?

	By the way, I don't have the 'Paragraph Format' option checked
anywhere, if anybody thinks of that.

	So, I'm stuck.  For now I'm just converting all linefeeds to
carriage returns instead of stripping them out, and that seems to
work. But why is it doing this?

	E-mail me any ideas, as my news server has been flakey lately.
Thanks in advance for your help,

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