Re: zdos & transferring files

Scott Friedman (saf@VNET.IBM.COM)
Tue, 8 Nov 94 08:30 PST

On Mon, 7 Nov 94 11:00 PST Tristan Bostone wrote:
>
> zdos works great for transferring files from PC to zoomer. Just
> get one of the shack's zoomer to modem cables, put a null modem
> adapter on the end, and plug it into com1 on the PC. (For some
> reason com2 doesn't work.) Run zdos, and put the zoomer into

>From doing an "od -a" under UNIX of zdos.com, it looks like if you put the
flag "/p:PORT" where PORT is 1, 2, 3, or 4 after the zdos command, you can
change the port to COM1, COM2, COM3, or COM4. It notes that the default is
COM1. It also looks like the "/b:BAUD" flag is also accepted. The values
there can be 2400, 9600, or 19200. The default is 19200. It is possible the
"/?" flag prints out these options as well as additional help. The
environment variable PTTY can set these also. The example given is
"PTTY=2,9600" for COM2, 9600 bps. Obviously, I have not tried this yet and
this is pure speculation.

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