From: halo@tamsun.tamu.edu (Dr. Strangelove)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Term and zmodem
Date: 18 Dec 1992 22:32:13 -0600
Organization: Texas A&M University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: tamsun.tamu.edu

Someone mentioned a while back that their zmodem problems were related to their
terminal lines being converted to terminal servers.  His explanation sounded
pretty reasonable so I thought this was my problem since we use a Xyplex
terminal server.  The only thing was that I work in the Network Availability
Center here at A&M and one of our functions is to log any networking problems.
No one ever called in a problem with using zmodem (I even saw someone using sz
when doing a what on our Unix machine) so I figured there was still something
wrong on my side.  Then a couple of friends told me they were having trouble
with sz on the Unix machine too so I thought I'd write up a problem on it to
see what our Unix people could find out.  In the meanwhile, I thought I'd use
our Vax's sz and magically, it worked.  I don't know how 'cause I've tried it
before.

Anyways, the Unix people got back to me and told me to try changing a setting
on the terminal server.  On the Xyplex, you have to connect to the machine,
break out to the local prompt, type set session passall, and then resume your
session.  I tried it and it worked.  I asked our communications guy why this
was and he said something about the server ( or machine?) translating what went
out (he got a little over my head after that ... I may work at the NAC but
50% of the networking stuff still baffles me... I just BS my way thru whenever
a (l)user asks me something I have no idea about :)  I then asked him why you
didn't have to do it with the Vaxes since you use the same terminal server.  He
said something to the effect that the Vaxes didn't do any translations.

Hopefully, this'll help some of you guys who are still having problems with
zmodem transfers.  I can safely say now that I have never had Term crash on me
(since 1.9) and have yet to run across any serious bugs.  As a matter of fact,
I think the only bug I've ever run across was on the previous release of Term
where the snapping cursor would leave trails behind.

Things I'd like to see on the next version of Term (off the top of my head):
resizeable review buffer, the ability for Term to open it's own window, the
ability to use the cursor keys and return in phonebook, vt2xx support (or is
the xpr lib out there somewhere?), and for Term to continue what it's doing
when the menu's are pulled down (during transfers or when text is being printed
t othe screen.)  Oh, and I take speed over program size any day... especially
since I can just implode the program.

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