Using cu with rz/sz? Can't be done?

[Richard Foulk]

>
>Cu forks into 2 processes, one that reads the remote tty line and
>writes to the controlling terminal and one that reads the terminal
>line and writes to the remote.  Most versions leave the process
>reading the remote tty running during ~! or ~$ escapes so it is
>impossible to use any kind of file transfer protocol.  If you
>have kermit set up for dial-out on your system you can either
>use it's own native protocol or shell escape and redirect to
>the tty as mentioned above.
>

You may have to be root to connect another process to a port that
kermit already has open, to override the exclusive-open.

I think I have a patch around here somewhere that enables kermit to
fork other processes and connect them to the remote port without
encountering that problem.


Richard
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