| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
[I'm not a regular Amiga notesfile reader so please send mail if you encounter any problems] Bugs in SZ.EXE and RZ.EXE Some of the problems with Zmodem to and from VMS are bacause of a bug in the handling of the terminal on the VMS side. The bug means that Xon/Xoff is disable inside the VMS terminal driver so that RZ or SZ program has to handle Xon and Xoff chars. If your VAX is busy data may be lost because an Xoff is actioned to late. Also the LATs Xon/Xoff handling will be disable by the bug and if the LAT is busy data may be lost. The bug is that SZ.EXE and RZ.EXE set the terminal to Passall mode where as it should be Pasthru mode. Passall disables Xon/Xoff handling. There are fixed images in MARVIN::PUBLIC$TOOLS: RZ.EXE and SZ.EXE. These fixes have been made to the latest sources. You can tell that you have the bug fix in your copy by typing: $ sz and $ rz -? and you will see the following near the bottom of the help: [Xon/Xoff Pasthru fix by BArry A. (MARVIN::) Scott] BArry
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 4664.1 | already fixed here | CGOFS::DREW | Steve Drew | Mon Apr 08 1991 12:35 | 20 |
I actually fixed this problem (& few others) a while back and
posted note to that fact. You must not of been running the version
from CGOU01::AMNEW:
sz 3.03x 5-09-89 for VMS by Chuck Forsberg, Omen Technology INC
"The High Reliability Software"
(the x identified the patched version).
Can't remember (about a year ago), but I fixed a couple of probs
with flow control, VMS directory path/file name extraction,
enabled bytes transfered progress reporting, and ability to
transfer using another terminal line other than stdin. (which
we use alot.)
regards,
Steve.
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| 4664.2 | LODGE::LEN | David M. Len | Mon Apr 08 1991 14:44 | 11 | |
I have the new versions mentioned in .0 and had previously acquired the
versions mentioned in .1. There is quite a difference is the size of
the files.
RZ.EXE;6 79 6-APR-1991 04:26:19.00 (RWED,RWED,RE,RE)
RZ.EXE;5 192 30-JUL-1990 22:41:59.00 (RWED,RWED,RE,RE)
SZ.EXE;15 93 6-APR-1991 04:26:14.00 (RWED,RWED,RE,RE)
SZ.EXE;14 211 30-JUL-1990 16:48:19.00 (RWED,RWED,RE,RE)
Would /OPT or /DEBUG account for such a big size difference?
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| 4664.3 | Not linked with shared RTL | CGOFS::DREW | Steve Drew | Mon Apr 08 1991 18:12 | 17 |
-> I have the new versions mentioned in .0 and had previously acquired the
-> versions mentioned in .1. There is quite a difference is the size of
-> the files.
It's becuause the person in .0 linked the C RTL in shared which is
ok, but if you try to run the executable on less than the version
it was linked it won't work. (sharable image ident mismatch).
Every time I have provided programs linked with current versions
of VMS, someone running a earlier(older) VMS version always
complains that is does'nt run. So I usually link in the RTL
for tools like SZ/RZ that tend to get run on many different platforms.
./Steve.
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