From: SMTP%"RELAY-INFO-VAX@CRVAX.SRI.COM" 29-JUL-1993 11:33:14.13 To: EVERHART CC: Subj: Re: Zmodem for VAX? X-Newsgroups: comp.os.vms From: rsimms@hubcap.clemson.edu (Robert Simms) Subject: Re: Zmodem for VAX? Message-ID: <1993Jul29.123833.21900@hubcap.clemson.edu> Organization: Clemson University Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1993 12:38:33 GMT Lines: 55 To: Info-VAX@KL.SRI.COM X-Gateway-Source-Info: USENET "I thought therefore I was." writes: >Date sent: 28-JUL-1993 10:18:22 >> >>Dan Graham, >>graham@vax3.drc.com > FTP to wuarchive.wustl.edu log in as User anonymous ... The versions at wuarchive aren't as high as you can go and still maintain compatibility with Procomm Plus (and other communications programs). Here's a message I posted a while back on which version of SZ/RZ is best and where I've found them. - Rob --------------------------------------------------------------------- A few years back I was trying to keep up to date on the version of Zmodem I had on our VAX. In the process, I noticed that there was something significantly different in one version that caused it not to work with Procomm Plus. So, I kept the old executables, and used the newer version of SZ with DSZ or GSZ when I was working with Reflection. I've seen a lot of requests or comments on this and other newsgroups from people who are just discovering this and I was unable to help them because I only had VAX executables. Well, I just got ambitious and searched around using Archie and came up with the following few sites that have old copies of the Zmodem source code: SZ version Location ---------------- ---------------------------------------------- 1.23 and 1.36 apocalypse.engr.ucf.edu:usr/ssd/oldzmodem.tar.Z 1.36 08-31-87 emx.cc.utexas.edu:pub/mnt/source/comm/zmodem 1.36 08-31-87 ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au:pub/net/zmodem.tar.Z 1.36 08-31-87 reseq.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de 1.36 08-31-87 morticia.cnns.unt.edu:pub/src/zmodem.tar.Z 1.36 08-31-87 theory.tc.cornell.edu:pub/zmodem.tar.Z 1.36 08-31-87 qiclab.scn.rain.com:pub/network/zmodem.tar.Z 1.36 08-31-87 einstein.mse.lehigh.edu:tars/zmodem.tar.Z 3.03 05-09-89 chalmers.se:.gopher/pub/unix/telecomm/zmodem.tar.Z 3.03 05-09-89 ee.utah.edu:Comm/Rzsz/ 3.03 05-09-89 faui80.informatik.uni-erlangen.de:pub/misc/zmodem.tar.Z 3.07 02-02-90 hsdndev.harvard.edu:pub/stuff/zmodem.tar.Z or zmodem.tar 3.07 02-02-90 tolsun.oulu.fi:pub/unix/rzsz-3.07.tar.Z 3.07 02-02-90 plains.nodak.edu:pub/unix/rzsz3-07.lzh 3.11 02-26-91 qiclab.scn.rain.com:pub/network/rzsz.tar.Z The last version that worked with Procomm Plus was 3.07. The newer versions of RZ have remained compatible with Procomm Plus, so there's no need to keep around an older executable of that. And version 3.07 of SZ doesn't do wildcards on VMS, so a command procedure workaround is called for there. Instructions for compiling on VMS are in the headers of sz.c and rz.c. The version at plains.nodak.edu has what appears to be Amiga executables included in the archive, but the source code is there. The version at hsdndev.harvard.edu has readable man pages included for VMS users.