From: Stew Ellis (ellis@nova.gmi.edu)
Date: 02/21/93


From: ellis@nova.gmi.edu (Stew Ellis)
Subject: Re: rzsz && kermit
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1993 19:10:37 GMT

keith.willis@almac.co.uk (Keith Willis) writes:

> I saw mention in here recently about using rz from kermit
> under Linux. The suggestion was to start the transfer on the
> remote and then to return to kermit and issue the command
> 'run rz </dev/modem >/dev/modem'.

> This does fire up rz, but it's '**nnnnn' messages still go to
> the screen and it fails to establish a connection with the
> zmodem running at the remote.

> Is there a particular version of rz I need, or maybe
> particular build options, or am I simply doing it wrong? :-)

> Replies by email please, as the volumes in here are a little
> intimidating(!) If I get it working, I'll post a summary of
> the suggestions I receive back here.

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I believe you are referring to a response from me to someone. I forgot that
rzsz now checks to see if it is being invoked to run on /dev/tty. If not it
exits with an error message. A number of people have published patches to
make newer versions of rzsz to work using stdin and stdout. I believe I
have seen patches on sunsite. Check with the Seyon stuff. I have kept
using a very old version of rzsz that does not contain the restrictive
copyright.