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From: jsi@idiom.com (Michael Craft)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: New FreeBSD user with problems
Date: 5 Apr 1997 07:00:28 -0800
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> > It still seems odd that FreeBSD comes with minicom but without the
> > Zmodem package, or any other package to download with.
> 
> The original Unix Zmodem package is proprietary software, that cannot
> be legally distributed on a CD-ROM.

Linux has it.

> FreeBSD 2.2 should ship with a package of lszrz which is freeware (but
> i haven't checked yet, i only know it's in the ports collection).

I coudn't find it in the FreeBSD directory at cdrom.com but it's
somewhere else at the site.