[Coco] Xmodem, Ymodem

[Bob Devries]

There's a software package called "The Wiz" which is also quite good, and I 
believe it was released to PD or shareware. It may be on RTSI also. It's a 
terminal programme.

--
Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia

Isaiah 50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me
the capacity to be his spokesman,
so that I know how to help the weary.

website: http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bdevasl
my blog: http://bdevries.invigorated.org/

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Ramsower" <georgeramsower at gmail.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Xmodem, Ymodem


> Focus on the COCO! Doggonit!
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gene Heskett"
>
>> On Saturday 22 March 2008, Bob Devries wrote:
>>>Gene, I wqs using the Amiga's NCOMM programme, with it's ZModem, which 
>>>used
>>>a library (can't remember its name, sorry).
>>>
>> Never was able to get NCOMM to work right.  Olaf Barthels 'Term-4.7' now 
>> was
>> about as bulletproof as anything on the amiga ever was.  Is aminet still
>> alive?  You could get it from there if they are.
>> Looks like they are
>>
>> <http://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/comm/term/term-roadmap.txt>
>>
>> should show you what to get, there are several patches too.
>>
>> Unforch, it looks like that server has been closed down, so use this link 
>> to
>> get all the stuff:
>>
>> <http://moose.darktech.org/FTPMIRRORS/ftp.aminet.net/comm/term/index.html>
>>
>>>My trials were on about 3 feet of 7-wire cable with hardware handshaking 
>>>on.
>>>
>>>--
>>>Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia
>>>
>>>Isaiah 50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me
>>>the capacity to be his spokesman,
>>>so that I know how to help the weary.
>>>
>>>website: http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bdevasl
>>>my blog: http://bdevries.invigorated.org/
>>>
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "Gene Heskett"
>>>Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 3:24 PM
>>>Subject: Re: [Coco] Xmodem, Ymodem
>>>
>>>> On Saturday 22 March 2008, Bob Devries wrote:
>>>>>I've used ZModem between my PC and my Amiga, but I must say it's very
>>>>>unreliable, and prone to time-outs, regardless of the transmission 
>>>>>speed.
>>>>
>>>> The amiga zmodem was I believe based on Tim Kientzles version, but was
>>>> totally
>>>> compatible with rzsz-3.36 on the coco.  So bulletproof in fact that I'd
>>>> say
>>>> you are miss-configured on one or the other serial ports, or have duff
>>>> hardware.  I could move a 2+ megabyte file to the coco, then move it 
>>>> back
>>>> to
>>>> the amiga with no diffs cmp could find, and reverse, from the coco to 
>>>> the
>>>> amiga and back and the crc was still good, and no stumbles in the 
>>>> transfer
>>>> going either way.  I tested that _very_ thoroughly.
>>>>
>>>> I have worked rzsz-3.3.6 against an old windows box once or twice too, 
>>>> on
>>>> a
>>>> real 14,400 modem.  A couple of bad crc restarts slowed it down as I 
>>>> was
>>>> sending it about 50 miles at the time, but it worked.
>>>>
>>>>>I'd say the SZ and RZ should work via the setup you mentioned (shell
>>>>>i=/t2&), and I have used that in the past, but I've only used XModem 
>>>>>and
>>>>>YModem from within a terminal program like XCom9.
>>>>>
>>>>>--
>>>>>Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia
>>>>>
>>>>>Isaiah 50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me
>>>>>the capacity to be his spokesman,
>>>>>so that I know how to help the weary.
>>>>>
>>>>>website: http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bdevasl
>>>>>my blog: http://bdevries.invigorated.org/
>>>>>
>>>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>>>From: "George Ramsower"
>>>>>Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 3:46 PM
>>>>>Subject: [Coco] Xmodem, Ymodem
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm curious why Ymodem won't work between this PC XP-Pro SP2 and my 
>>>>>> coco
>>>>>> OS9-L2
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Xmodem works, but places stuff at the end to fill in the last 100
>>>>>> bytes(I
>>>>>> assume)
>>>>>> I can't get Ymodem or Zmodem to work at all. So, what I do is just 
>>>>>> edit
>>>>>> out the extra crud that xmodem adds and the end and go from there.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't use a terminal program on the coco. I simply do "shell 
>>>>>> i=/t2&"
>>>>>> from the coco in the startup file and use Hyperterminal on this PC to 
>>>>>> do
>>>>>> my work.
>>>>>> Well, actually right now, I'm using /T3 on the coco because I lost a
>>>>>> driver or reciever on the coco on the /t2 port. I need to fix that. 
>>>>>> This
>>>>>> happens about once a year.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I run it at 9600 baud, 8n1, using using all the handshaking lines 
>>>>>> such
>>>>>> as
>>>>>> RTS, CTS and RD
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The Xmodem and Ymodem routines I have came from the OS9-L2 BBS system 
>>>>>> I
>>>>>> bought about a thousand years ago.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This has been a problem since day one. I read on this list that 
>>>>>> another
>>>>>> person(I can't remember who) said he couldn't get Ymodem (or maybe
>>>>>> Zmodem)
>>>>>> to work either.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Suggestions?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> George
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>
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>>>> --
>>>> Cheers, Gene
>>>> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
>>>> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
>>>> -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
>>>> "Being disintegrated makes me ve-ry an-gry!" <huff, huff>
>>>>
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