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Xref: sserve comp.protocols.misc:2732 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1331 Newsgroups: mv.forum.online,comp.protocols.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.kei.com!world!mv!kaikow From: kaikow@mv.mv.com (Howard Kaikow) Subject: SZ under 386bsd and dates sent to a PC Keywords: zmodem, date, PC, 386BSD Organization: MV Communications, Inc. Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1993 05:14:04 GMT Message-ID: <CFp2JG.A5E@mv.mv.com> Summary: Incorrect date downloaded by SZ to a PC Lines: 56 There is a problem using SZ in downloading a file to a PC. I encountered this on 28 October. Here's one example. Here is the file on mv.mv.com -rw------- 1 kaikow kaikow 2030 Oct 28 20:46 mbox Here is what sz -ap mbox caused to be written on my PC. MBOX 2030 10-30-93 12:46a Both my PC and mv.mv.com agreed that it was 28 October. Earlier, I downloaded a file that had a date of 29 October, so the difference is not constant. Does anybody know of a reliable x/y/zmodem program that runs under 386BSD? >Xref: mv comp.protocols.misc:1707 >Newsgroups: comp.protocols.misc >Path: mv!noc.near.net!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!omen!caf >From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX) >Subject: Re: Zmodem >Organization: Omen Technology INC, Portland Rain Forest >Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1993 22:14:20 GMT >Message-ID: <1993Oct29.221420.17299@omen.UUCP> >Keywords: Date, zmodem, BSDI, PC, Crosstalk >References: <CFMtIG.I96@mv.mv.com> >Lines: 23 In article <CFMtIG.I96@mv.mv.com> kaikow@mv.mv.com (Howard Kaikow) writes: >Today, I used zmodem for the first time via Omem Technology's SZ program >on a BSDI unix system. The receiving system was a PC using DCA's >Crosstalk Communicator. > >Both systems knew that today is 28 October, yet when each of the files >was recorded on the PC, the date was 29 October and the time was off by a >strange amount. > >I have to assume that it is the sending system that sends the date to the >receiving system. Has anybody else seen this behavior? Anybody know how >to work around it? Yes, use DSZ for your ZMODEM file transfers. It understands the difference between UTC time used for Unix and ZMODEM and DOS time (z numeric parameter). -- Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX ...!tektronix!reed!omen!caf author of YMODEM, ZMODEM, Professional-YAM, ZCOMM, and DSZ Omen Technology Inc "The High Reliability Software" 17505-V NW Sauvie IS RD Portland OR 97231 503-621-3406