-> This made me realize that you're correct... I should sign up for the
-> Linux echo.  Can you suggest an OLR and Telnet client with Zmodem
-> that I
-> can use in Linux.  I see from your tagline that you're reading Fido f
-> the same source I am so I would think that you have information on th
-> goods I need.

     The telnet client for UNIX is "telnet".  The "old"
X/Y/Zmodem for
UNIX had a "-modem" suffix.  UMODEM (UNIX XModem) and CMODEM for the 'C'
Programmers workshop.  VAXMODEM and VMODEM for VAXen.  The 'new' ZMODEM
is called 'sz' (send zmodem) 'rz' (receive zmodem) and DSZ/DRZ for
deluxe zmodem.  Although CU 'call up' does not use XMODEM, ECU
'executive call up' does have X/Y/ZMODEM.  The "standard" method of
moving files between two UNIX systems is UUCP and FTP.

     UNIX messages were just a "plain text" file with a numeric name
that were kept in a "spool directory".  They would be  "compressed
copied" between two systems and uncompressed on arrival.  Early message
systems were called MSGS, and NEWS.  Message threads were read by
pattern matching with GREP on a common subject on all of the files
contained in a single directory.  The "reader" would be a pipeline
composed of a GREP fed to a pager such as MORE.  Then with USENET
NewsGroups RN READNEWS was used.  Then the message readers that read
threaded message trees were named after trees -- PINE, ELM, et cetera.
Multi-Mail is good.  Waffle was a popular IBM PC interface to UNIX
before the days of Multi-Mail.  In UNIX there are multiple methods for
arriving at the same functionality by using different paths to get
there, since anything can be fed to anything, anything can be used as a
message reader.  EMacs, The "kitchen sink" King of Editors has a offline
NewsGroups and Message Reader extension written in E-LISP, so you can
even use EMacs as an offline reader (if you get the full multi-meg.s
installation rather than the "tiny" installation)!

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