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

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Sat Dec 13 19:56:03 EST 2003


On Saturday 13 December 2003 17:24, Dave Kelly wrote:
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>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. :-)

Yeah, I seem to recall battling with some M$ dweeb about 10-12 years 
back cause the only thing they could see that ftp was to be used for 
was piracy.  I gave him one of my more infamous one liners 
referenceing the incomplete job his parents did and hung up.

I don't doubt that it puked all over itself when it got the 
*B00000000(1/0) trigger string from an sz or rz program.  On 
purpose...

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Cheers, Gene
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