Conference hydra::amiga_v1

    You are probably connecting thru a terminal server of some type.
    It it possible that some of the ports on the server are set up
    differently from others.  I have occationally had problems when
    the computer and my terminal emulator were set to 8 bit characters
    but the terminal server port was in 7 bit characters.  Some things
    work correctly and some things don't.
    
    At the local prompt on the terminal server use the command
    SHOW PORT this will tell you how the terminal server is set.  The
    important thing is to make certain that all 3 pieces (i.e. Host,
    terminal server, and terminal emulator) have the same character size
    (8 bit), parity (off/none), and XON/XOFF flow contol (enabled).

    When you do get it working UPLOAD JRComm93 and then use :-
    
    		ZMODEM
    
    This is a lot faster and it does not matter what the file mode is in 
    ie stream_lf or 510 bytes
    
    		Regards
    		Steve G..

    
    There is definitivly something wrong with the Xmodem part of Handshake,
    I can receive from our server at 19200bps, but sending to the VAX
    fails at nearly any speed with those timeout errors. Kermit works
    great in both ways, but is sooooo sloooooow. :-)
    
    Whilst the ZModem stuff sounds great, I would hate to switch programs
    for down/uploading, since I believe none of the mentioned programs
    does a comparable job in emulating a VT200 like HS.
    
    I sure hope that Wheat will be extended with some transfer protocols
    in the near future...
    
    Regards,
    
    <CB> 

	Thanks for the responses - I decided to make a go at Zmodem,
	using AZComm (Amiga) and SZ (Vax).  Works *much* better;  there's
	still a large file (400+ blocks) that I'm having trouble with,
	but it might be cockpit error...have to work on it a bit.

	Steve - I couldn't find JRComm93 anywhere, got a pointer to it?
	And how does it compare with AZComm?  Finally, are they shareware?

	Thanks again...Never saw the "transmit" light on so *steadily*!!
	Keith Y.

    JRComm93 seems more resilient
    However if you still have problems try th following
    SZ -bkL512 file.name  
    	This makes it about half as slow but works every time for me.
    
    		Pete
    

    
    Why do these things never work for me???
    I grapped SZ/RZ and JRComm 0.93 from the Enet and installed them
    here. While uploading to the VAX at 19200 bps works like a charm,
    downloading to the Ami only gives me TimeOut errors.
    What gives? Anybody?
    
    Advanced Thanks...
    
    <CB>
    
    

    Hi CB
    
    I did the EXACT same thing this morning and had the same problem.
    I've been using VT200 and ZMODEM all along without any problems
    but I wanted to try using ZMODEM cos it's supposed to be faster.
    
    I got time out errors if I do 
    
    SZ filename.zoo on the vax side 
    
    but when I did
    
    SZ -2 filename.zoo it worked ok
    
    this is with autoload set in one of the menus
    
    Hope this helps
    steve..
    
    

    
    Re: .8
    
    Hi Steve,
    
    yeah I already did a plain sz on the Vax and stared at all the options,
    however to no avail. Your "sz -2" won't even start a transfer for
    me. A "sz filename" at least started a transfer once, but "sz *.*"
    never. I'm close to give up on this...
    The sz I use is version 2.12, if that is any help for you folks.
    
    Regards,
    <CB>

Are you transferring a binary file (arc, zoo)? Maybe you need some
kind of image/binary mode switch?

I've used sz/rz to go to Amiga form VAX but at 2400.

John  

P.S. I use DNET or KA9Q from VAX to Amiga at 19200.

John

>   P.S. I use DNET or KA9Q from VAX to Amiga at 19200.

    How do you do this? I thought DNET only runs under UNIX?
    (Or are you on an Ultrix node?)

    Re: .10,.11
    
    Yeah, I wanna know that, too. And KA9Q would be fine, too.
    
    And I tried either binary and text files with SZ/JRcomm with their
    respective flags, to no avail. 
    
    <CB>

For DNET you need Unix/Ultrix on the other end. I have Ultrix on my VAX at home.

KA9q requires TCP/IP. Again ok with Ultrix (or if you have ENET, VMS and the
Ultrix Connection - UCX - software which gives VMS TCP/IP sockets on ENET).

John

I should add that I used DNET very briefly once KA9q came around.

DNET allows only 2 machines on the network while KA9q is an IP network
so it's only limited by the IP addressing scheme (which I guess ends up being
 2^32 nodes!?!).

Both allow multiple links between any 2 machines.

At one point I have 3 machines on the net at home - 2 Amiga's and a VAXstation
with the VSII being a gateway.

John

    .13 & .14  -  John, you are a sick man. :^)  
    
    Steve - green with envy

sick? Actually by now just a bit mad 8^}

It's really all just to learn. 

john