Procomm-Modem7 like program for xenix

[Bill Foote]

In article <1990Feb15.134535.2355 at isavax.isa.com> cliffb at isavax.isa.com (cliff bedore*) writes:
>I have a need for a program that will act like cu except that it must accept
>Xmodem/Ymodem file transfers.  Is there such an animal? where how much etc?
>


Well, I've managed to get the rz/sz programs (available from the
comp.sources.unix archive on uunet.uu.net) to accept zmodem downloads.
Here's what I do:

  1.  Use kermit to dial to the remote system
  2.  Invoke sz to send the file (i.e. sz -b foo)
  3.  Get back to the kermit> prompt and fork a subshell
  4.  Give the command "rz < /dev/tty1a > /dev/tty1a" to my local system
      (/dev/tty1a is the port that my modem is connected to)

I fork the subshell rather than quitting out of kermit so that kermit
will maintain the lock files for me.  I realize that this is a pretty
obscene way of doing this, but it works.  The usage command that I
get from "sz -help" says something about a command line argument for
use with cu, but I didn't feel like investigating.

BTW, kermit is available from /communications on anonymous ftp from
uunet.uu.net.

I bet that there's a better way to do this.

Good luck!

Bill Foote
foote at miro.berkeley.edu