Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!iuvax!bobmon From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: DSZ (was Re: Thanks to everyone who helped with SIMTEL20) Message-ID: <15694@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Date: 9 Dec 88 14:06:34 GMT References: <15632@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <485@mccc.UUCP> Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.UUCP (RAMontante) Organization: malkaryotic Lines: 29 [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?