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From: mw@theatre.pandora.sax.de (Martin Welk)
Subject: Re: ZMODEM protocol software
Organization: Private Site, Member of Individual Network e. V.
Message-ID: <DHMK82.16L@theatre.pandora.sax.de>
References: <47bpij$qc1@ulowell.uml.edu> <47jbg4$l6f@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 14:00:01 GMT
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(I'm still wondering why this newsgroups hasn't been renamed
to comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.j yet...)

In article <47jbg4$l6f@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:

>The zmodem suite should be found in the ports; however, it's actually
>not entirely free (rather something like shareware, i don't have the
>copyright handy right now), that's also why there ain't a ``package''
>for it.

People coming from a PC might wonder what they have to search for.
Look for something starting witz rzsz - the reason is, rz is the
``receive zmodem'' and sz the ``send zmodem'' program. They come
along with links to rx (XMODEM), rb (YMODEM) and sx, sb.

Bye,
    Martin