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From: jgoerzen@complete.org (John Goerzen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: ZModem under Kermit problems
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Date: 5 May 1996 18:50:42 -0500
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Simon Coggins (eng-sc@jcu.edu.au) wrote:
: >I've heard it said (and many people have reccommended it to me) that I can
: >run ZModem under C-Kermit.
: 
: >Then ZModem will start, and appear to negotiate successfully.  But then I
: >get erorrs like "data subpacket too long" and the transfer will abort.
: 
: ince this is over a telnet try using 
: 
: sz -e <file>

Actually, I've tried rz -e, but that failed even worse.  Wouldn't even
negotiate the filename.

: 
: the -e means it escapes ctrl chars. It's what we have to use here else we
: get the same error you mentioned.
: 
: 
: Regards
: Simon
: 
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