Re: Re: KDE konsole
  By: Michiel Broek to Rob Swindell on Thu Feb 23 2006 09:29 pm

 > Hi Rob,
 > 
 > 
 > Rob Swindell wrote to Michiel Broek:
 > 
 > RS>  > Expecting a ZDLE in zmodem is strange, it should expect
anything and
 > RS>  > anything can be escaped with a ZDLE. Of course in this
case it should
 > RS>  > legally expect the zmodem header.
 > RS>
 > RS> The receiver sends responsds as hex headers which begin the sequence:
 > RS> ZPAD, ZPAD, ZDLE, ZHEX
 > RS>
 > RS> If the "ZDLE" character is not received, sexyz
reports the quoted error
 > RS> message.
 > 
 > I got that part fixed, it was because that syncterm didn't start auto zmodem
 > download and my zmodem timed out before you could manually start the
 > download.

It certainly *should* start auto-Zmodem download. What version of SyncTerm are
you using? Have you tried on any other BBSes (say, vert.synchro.net)?

 > The characters seen were from the menu.

Yeah, that's what I suspected (ANSI escape sequence).

 > But it still doesn't work, but it does a bit more. The file header is
 > exchanged and then syncterm doesn't get the file blocks. I suspect crc
 > errors but the messages scroll away too fast.
 > 
 > Is there a better way to see syncterm's debug output?

Not currently. I'll see about adding some file logging of some sort.
 
 > I also saw that it doesn't work with sz/rz and I know this is supposed to
 > work. It all could be something in the underlying ttyio drivers that makes
 > the two programs to refuse to work together.

cvs.synchro.net and nix.synchro.net are examples of systems that use [l]sz/rz
for Zmodem file transfers and you can telnet there with SyncTerm and up/
download all day long.

 > Rob, is the zmodem in syncterm the same as the source in sbbs?

There actually is no Zmodem source in sbbs (all Telnet file transfers are
implemented in external protocol drivers, ala sz/rz, fdsz, sexyz, etc.). The
zmodem code in SyncTerm *is* the same as the source in Sexyz however. And Sexyz
is in pretty wide-spread use now.

 > I only got a
 > binary distribution of syncterm. I must confess that I didn't really look if
 > the source was available somewhere.

It is in the cvs.synchro.net respository, along side the source to Synchronet
and Sexyz.

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