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Hello Viktor - 

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

CA>> I haven't tried to use the standard telnet, exit to a
CA>> child process, and initiate 'sz' or 'rz' using the same
CA>> port/connect as the parent but I'm guessing it's not
CA>> doable or is extremely awkward? 

VP> That won't wotk because you will be geting a new telnet
VP> login prompt and not your old connection. When you
VP> initialize a tcp/ip session the server will remember your
VP> adress and port and allocates a port number on his side for
VP> thi connection. And two applications can't have the same
VP> port number - so you can't do it this way. 

VP> If telnet would inherit his File Descriptors to child
VP> processes you could do something like "sz
VP> --whatever-parameers &7" (for fd #7) , but AFAIK no
VP> telnet implementation does this. 

I didn't think it was worth trying since I had ztelnet anyhow.
:-) 

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