sz dealing with permissions bug? (was VLT suggestions)

[J.B. Nicholson]

This is being cross-posted to comp.unix.questions and the Subject: line
has been appropriately altered.

In <CEDMAN.91Mar8174129 at lynx.ps.uci.edu> cedman at golem.ps.uci.edu (Carl Edman) writes:

>3. Is the fact that you cannot download via xprzmodem and rz under
>some (all ?) flavours of unix a bug in
>        a) rz
>        b) xprzmodem
>        c) the unix flavour
>        d) VLT ?
>
>        Carl Edman
>"We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot
>morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot
>do." -- Auberon Herbert
>          Send mail to Carl Edman <cedman at golem.ps.uci.edu>

I think there is a problem with sz when no permissions are set (when
the permissions line looks like "----------").  Zmodem will start the
download with a valid 'challenge', but then nothing follows.  No 
filename, file info, nothing.  The receiving Zmodem ends up waiting a
long time and just reporting TIMEOUTs.

Jeff
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