[Coco] Dumb way to write 3.5" floppy in Coco RSBASIC?

[Dave Kelly]

----- Original Message -----
From: <KnudsenMJ at aol.com>
To: <gene.heskett at verizon.net>; <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Dumb way to write 3.5" floppy in Coco RSBASIC?


> In a message dated 12/13/03 2:38:23 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> gene.heskett at verizon.net writes:
>
> > Same difference Mike.  "zmodem" refers to the protocol, and its sz or
> >  rz that executes the protocol.  As the archive is shipped with the
> >  title of rzsz-version.number, the rzsz name has become attached.
> >  BTW, since version 3.17, the one you are running came from my
> >  machines compiler.  3.36 I believe is the last one I built.
>
> Thanks for the history fill-in, Gene.  I don't have any version of zmodem,
> since this came out after I had stopped downloading from CIS/Delphi and
was
> doing it at work on a Sun that could write PC format disks.  That would be
after I
> got my MM/1 and could use it to convert PC disk files to Coco OS-9 format.

I always enjoyed using RZSZ when I had my MM1 up.  Back in the days of BBSs
I got banned from the board I call locally because I used RZSZ.

The sysop was one of the Microsoft's public testers of what became 'Windows
2000' and everytime I would try to download messages using RZSZ, I would
crash his operating system. So, he banned me. :-)