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From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: tip
Date: 11 Sep 1993 08:47:28 GMT
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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In article <26ruui$vo@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Skyler King <sky@soda.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>I know this may not be the right place to ask but...
>
>I finally got my modem to work with NetBSD using tip but I seem to be
>having trouble with file transfers.  I can get ascii files fine using
>the take command but I am having trouble recieving binary file.  I try
>'~<' and for the reote command type 'sz filename' but it just sits there.
>What transfer protocol does '~<' use?  Sorry to be of trouble.

	I believe that ~> uses some simple ASCII transfer (I've been
	wrong before...)

	What you want to do is the following:

	Once you've typed sz filename on the one machine, pause
	tip (~^Z), and then:

	# rz < /dev/comx > /dev/comx

	where x is the com port you're using.

	Just fg back into tip when you're done the transfer.


	Quite often, sz will hang---I've found that using
	sz -bw 2048 filenames works well in these cases....




	Don't be afraid to ask quetstions--The group is so named for a reason.


						Toodlepip!
						Marc 'em.

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