From: jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) Subject: Re: Question about rz/sz Date: 7 Sep 1992 19:36:12 GMT
In article <1992Sep7.144021.22715@klaava.Helsinki.FI> wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:
>jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) writes:
>>Personally, Omen will never see a penny of my money unless they find
>>someone who can write documentation. There are better (and free)
>>zmodem implementations for DOS (Texas ZModem for one), and the old
>>'free' rzsz packages work fine for me. I also have no use for a
>>communications program that is by all reports hard-to-use.
>
>BTW, does anybody have a pointer to documentation of the Zmodem
>protocol? It seems that somebody might want to write a better Zmodem
>for Unix.
The thing to do is find the pre-1989 (?) rzsz packages and base the
work on that - those versions were public domain. Versions after that
have a rather non-specific copyright.
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