[ale] zmodem from dialup ?

[Alan Bowman]

On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Christopher wrote:

>Does anyone know how I can dial up a system (not PPP - just plain
>terminal style) and do a ZMODEM (or other) download using Linux?  I'd
>like to put the file into /tmp and go from there.
>
>I can do it with Minicom manually; but I'd really like to script/cron it
>since it happens quite frequently.

>- I've looked at "cu" but it doesn't seem to play well with "sz"
>(Zmodem)
 This is what we do at work - we have a custom call program that calls
"cu", and connects to the remote system. Then we use "rz" and "sz" to
send or receive.

>Can anyone recommend which I should choose or provide me with a sample
>script that has the zmodem (sz) functionality so I can learn from it.
 I'll have to send you our command syntax from work tomorrow, since I
don't do it enough to have it memorized. These will be the commands we
use on SCO OpenServer, but I'm guessing they should work similarly on
Linux.

...alan

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