Celestial Software

Thanks for the quick response. I tried 3.85 with another binary file, this time a PDF, and the transfer still fails. There should be a way to convert a binary file to Ascii encoding so that I could download two files. Something about base64 or some such. I need a temporary workaround. It may be Monday before I get to it, though.

You could use uuencode/uudecode, but you'd have to be able to uudecode on the Windows side.

Or, you could just wait till I have this figured out. I'm working on it tonight.

Brian

Alright, Paul.

I've got this fixed. You should be able to connect using SSH2 on Win98 now. Now, if you could test the zmodem, I'd be grateful.

http://www.celestialsoftware.net/telnet/AbsoluteTelnet5.09.exe

Brian

I downloaded it, but I am working this weekend, so I will probably not get to it until Monday. I will keep you posted.

STATUS REPORT:

The attempt to use 5.09 was only partially successful. I was able at least to login to my remote shell account, but I was not able to download files.

I have a PDF file, 774352 bytes. I UUENCODEd it to 1066922 bytes. When I tried a 'sz -b xxx' for the PDF, the download started, but after a while the progress meter and bytes received field "stuck" and did not increase. I noticed that there was a bytes received received field, but in the panel the bytes transmitted (so I am guessing) field was truncated in the display and hard to read. Anyway, eventually the transfer ended, as shown by the little icon in the system tray for a dialup connection, but there was no message of successful or failed completion. When I looked in Windows Explorer, there was no file in the directory.

When I tried to start the download, A.T. complained that "C:Download", my download directory, did not exist, even though it has existed for years. I clicked on the directory in the message box, but A.T. did not seem to accept it, but eventually started the -- failing -- download.

Next I tried 'sz -a' with the UUENCODEd file. Same complaint from A.T. that the C:Download directory does not exist, even though it does. Eventually the download started. It failed, although I did not get a message one way or the other, as just about then my firewall put up an alert about an intrusion attempt. (I have been getting a lot of those lately.)

Another item. Both 3.85, my current version, and 5.09 both say from time to time that my panix2.tnt has been modifed, even though it hasn't. I don't know what they are complaining about. When I go to close A.T., I have to tell it not to save any -- nonexistent -- changes.

Are you using the US-English version of Win98 or one localized in another language?

Do you have access to a Win2000 or XP box somewhere where you can test sending from the same host to a different client?

What type of host are you using?

What version of sz?

Any chance you could give me a temporary login to that machine so I can test this myself? It may be something host specific that I am not able to reproduce here.

Brian