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echo: telemate
to: CHRIS WALDROP
from: JIM LOTZGESELL
date: 1996-09-15 18:33:00
subject: Re: Zmodem in TMfW 1.10

-> .AREA:TELEMATE
-> .MSGID: 1:3825/21@fidonet.org 0062b629
->  -=> On 08-16-96  08:28 Stephen Adams wrote to All <=-
->  SA> Hello everyone,
->  SA> attempts to continue on have led to a new file being created each 
time.
->  SA> What gives?
-> Not for sure what your problem is with the downloads, but it sounds like
-> TMW is trying to just rename the files you try to download if they already
-> exist.  You can fix this by deleting the original file.
->  SA> 2.  Numerous errors while trying to upload using Zmodem.  Any 
ttempts
->  SA> to upload files to my local free-net results at least 200-300
->  SA> errors for each file.  Once on my free-net, I view the files (if
->  SA> they're ASCII) to check for errors, and find that the files are a
->  SA> complete mess.  Since I can't view binaries, I have no way to
->  SA> confirm that they are also getting messed up; I can only assume
->  SA> they are.  Uploading using the very much slower Xmodem works fine,
->  SA> though.
-> OK, I had the same problem once.  Check your flow control, and if you 
on't
-> have RTS/CTS set as your flow control, try changing it.  Don't understand
-> why this fixed mine, but it did.
->  SA> If anyone else has had these problems, I'd appreciate hearing from
->  SA> them. Am I doing something wrong with the Telemate configurations? Is
->  SA> there something else I need to tweak that's not mentioned in the 
online
->  SA> documents?  Are these bugs?
-> No, I don't think they're bugs, just probably something set wrong in the
-> configuration.  Of course, I may be completely wrong also.  Let me know if
-> this works or not, OK?
-> Hope this helps,
-> Chris
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Check your flow control, TMW works much better usung hardware flow
control rather than software flow control. This may help
LOTZ
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