[Coco] Xmodem, Ymodem

[George Ramsower]

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>
>>>