Re: Sz and rz problem

Theo Van Dyne ((no email))
Mon, 14 Jul 1997 13:56:55 -0700 (PDT)

Our customer Douglas Warren says:
>
> On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Theo Van Dyne wrote:
> > Our customer Douglas Warren says:
> > > On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Rich Burroughs wrote:
> > > > We have several PM3s running ComOS 3.5.1b19 and fed by channelized T1s.
> > > > This seems to work fine for most things, but I have a co-located client
> > > > who is having a weird problem.
> > > > They have a custom client/server app. The end user dials into the PM3
> > > > and is telnetted to the co-located server and logged in. The server
> > > > does an rz and gets some info from the client end of the app, then does
> > > > an sz to send some back.
> > Here's a post to the list from 12/94 on using sz/rz with the opion "-e"
> > for escaping control characters. Don't know if there's new problem with
> > though with ComOS 3.5, but doubt it as haven't heard anything the past 8
> > months. See if this works for you. Also be sure to use sz/rz from our ftp
> > site:
> > ftp://ftp.livingston.com/pub/src/sz.tar.Z - the best version of rz/sz we
> > know of.
>
> Preliminary tests indicate that this did indeed fix it, however there may
> be still something to look into, Mr. Burroughs indicates that the Co-lo
> is indeed running Linux, and I can testify that until we upgraded to 3.5
> (We were on 3.3.1 previously) the stock rz/sz worked fine. I'm wondering
> if there was some change in the port handling that could crop up in other
> places? (Again, so far it is only with a modem dialing into a PM running
> 3.5, and then rlogin-ing into a box running linux (2.0.30 seems to be a
> common denominator here as well) and then running sz.) Regardless though
> the sz that is on the livingston site seems to be working for us, and I'll
> let you know if it isn't.

Thanks for the feedback. Looks like the common denominator *is* rlogin,
and the colleagues here say rlogin is the unkown here re: 8-bit clean
using -8 & -E options. They suggest going back to telnet service that has
always worked flawlessly the past 2-3 years.

Keep us posted otherwise.

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