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From: ellis@nova.gmi.edu (R. Stewart Ellis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: probably a silly rzsz question
Date: 9 Nov 93 12:44:13 GMT
Organization: GMI Engineering&Management Institute, Flint, MI
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osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) writes:


>Well, if you're using the com port you've dialed in on for up and down
>loading, then the simplest incantation that doesn't require you to figure
>a bunch of things out is 'rz < /dev/tty > /dev/tty'
>-- 
> Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager                (406) 994-4780
> 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science
> Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717	osyjm@cs.montana.edu

This is the 3rd post I have read.  All of them have neglected the fact that
you need to give this job to the shell except for one guy who said
erroneously that you had to exit kermit.  What you have to do is 'run' a job
from the kermit prompt or 'spawn' the job.  Exiting should be unnecessary.
I have defined the following macros in my .kermrc file:

define rz !rz \%1 \%2 \%3 \%4 \%4 \%5 \%6 \%7 \%8 \%9 < \v(line) > \v(line)
define sz !sz \%1 \%2 \%3 \%4 \%4 \%5 \%6 \%7 \%8 \%9 < \v(line) > \v(line)

There may be another problem: recent versions of rzsz do no allow input and
output redirection, explicitly opening /dev/tty.  Using rzsz this way is
also a violation of the copyright notices in recent versions of zmodem.

If you have the latest versions of kermit on both ends and use very large
packets and several windows, it is supposed to be much faster than older
version.  I have not done this so am not sure.



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