Re: SZ help

[payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne)]

In article <27q93q$feb@zip.eecs.umich.edu> grover@emunix.emich.edu (Grover Thomas) writes:
>In article <27lvbl$pon@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu> ba06103@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Guest_Teddy) writes:
>>
>>	I need help with unix's SZ command. It doesn't work
>>with SHK files somehow. It keeps giving me CRC doesn't amtch data
>>errors. What options are you guys using to download with SZ?
>>
>>	Samething happens with Ymodem or Zmodem. Txt and BinSCii
>>files work fine so what's with SHK files? Is it the Control chars?
>
>     You should probably set the binary option to force 8-bit
>sends.
>
>sz -b filename.shk
>
>     if that still doesn't work, make sure your connection is truely
>8-bits wide (all the way down the network, if applicable).

I have heard about the 8-bit requirement, but when I dial up to my
workstation at work (7E1, for no reason I can figure out) I can sz
binaries with no problems. However, if I telnet to netcom I cannot
sz from there (through the 7-bit link).

It might be a good idea to alias sz to "sz -b".
 
>-- 
>Grover Thomas       grover@emunix.emich.edu 
>     "Economics is the only profession where a man can have a lifelong
>       reputation as an expert without ever being right."
>                              -- George Meany


Rich

payner@netcom.com


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