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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
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Subject: DSZ (was Re: Thanks to everyone who helped with SIMTEL20)
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Date: 9 Dec 88 14:06:34 GMT
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[Pete Holsberg ('s', not 'z') wonders about the DSZ program by Chuck
Forsberg.]

The documentation that was packaged with DSZ has, buried deep in its
getting-started-hints section, instructions for running DSZ standalone.
The major value of this is to convince oneself that DSZ is in fact
working.  It's not much as a terminal emulator; doesn't act like any
particular terminal, as I recall.  But it does work.

I use it as an "add-on" to Procomm v2.4.2, via Mark Herring's POE
utility.  (I invoke the "editor", ctrl-A, which starts POE.  This gives
me upload/download menus, and I've installed DSZ in them.)  ProcommPlus
has this "add-on" feature built in, I understand... anyway, my poe.cfg
file specifies the following commands:
	DSZ sz !	to prompt for a filename, then send it
	DSZ rz		if I've already done an "sz" command on the host
	DSZ d t		invoke DSZ as a terminal (then I can do the "sz"
			command to the host, and DSZ picks it up)
From the names given to the options, it's obvious that DSZ was written
specifically with sz/rz in mind.

Final comment:  I haven't been able to convince myself that dsz & zmodem
is faster than the ymodem-batch option that Procomm has (and which rz/sz
also supports, more-or-less transparently); I also can't convince myself
that it ISN'T faster.  It seems a bit niftier, somehow, but getting it
started takes 3 keypresses which respond marginally slower (on my XT
clone) than the 2 that Procomm takes.  I haven't registered it, because
my usage of it is still "experimental" -- it works, but what is it
really doing for me that my registered Procomm isn't?