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From: eng-sc@jcu.edu.au (Simon Coggins)
Subject: Re: ZModem under Kermit problems
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jgoerzen@complete.org (John Goerzen) writes:

>Hi,

>I've heard it said (and many people have reccommended it to me) that I can
>run ZModem under C-Kermit.

>Then ZModem will start, and appear to negotiate successfully.  But then I
>get erorrs like "data subpacket too long" and the transfer will abort.

ince this is over a telnet try using 

sz -e <file>

the -e means it escapes ctrl chars. It's what we have to use here else we
get the same error you mentioned.


Regards
Simon

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