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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: New FreeBSD user with problems
Date: 2 Apr 1997 00:32:22 GMT
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jsi@idiom.com (Michael Craft) wrote:

> It still seems odd that FreeBSD comes with minicom but without the
> Zmodem package, or any other package to download with.

The original Unix Zmodem package is proprietary software, that cannot
be legally distributed on a CD-ROM.

FreeBSD 2.2 should ship with a package of lszrz which is freeware (but
i haven't checked yet, i only know it's in the ports collection).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)