CA> The standard telnet will not give you a child process (comand
 CA> line) to call sz or rz and use the already opened 'port' that
 CA> connects you to the BBS. The ztelnet program _does_ have this
 CA> function built into it. :-) 

 PS> I wouldn't be so sure. ^] in the standard telnet client gives you a
 PS> command prompt and you can start external commands with !command. I
 PS> don't know whether one could start a zmodem client that way,
 PS> though. That depends on whether telnet connects the input and
 PS> output of the child process with the telnet session. No idea.

i was just playing with this and cannot seem to get it to work as
desired... i'm using the standard telnet client and the lszrz package... i
start the download on the BBS side and then ^]!rz and then wait...

rz reports waiting for the **Bzmodem header stuff that never comes thru the
IO... as soon as i shell with ^], nothing comes thru from the remote
side... if it could be done, the transfer would be able to be visible on
the screen as the data came in if one was to trigger it without the zmodem
protocol to grab it... i have actually triggered them like (ie: manually)
this many years ago but cannot remember the details...

)\/(ark