>The ZModem implementation in the terminal package didn't seem to work
>very well with the VAX version (which, I believe, was the real thing written
>by Omen). There seem to be more wrong versions of ZModem out there than
>right ones. I don't know if it's the fault of lazy authors or of Omen
>(for not making the spec public, or having weird marketing policies).
It looks like the DOS users of the late 80's had it good in
that respect then since most of them used the same Zmodem external
protocal executable. I was running a BBS on an XT using QuickBBS at
the time and my terminal program of choice was Telix 2.12. It didn't
have an internal Zmodem yet so I wrote a small compiled BASIC program
which asked for the various info that Zmodem expected on the command
line and then passed the info to it. This small program was called
from within Telix and I was constantly modifying it to add support
for whatever new and odd protocals would appear. I stuck with that
version of Telix for quite a long time just because it was smaller
and faster than the later versions.
Jeff
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