[ic] sending files via terminal app?

Dave 'Duke of URL' Weiner interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Tue Sep 25 16:02:01 2001


> Hey folks -
>
> This might be a touch off-topic, but I venture to ask if anyone here
> knows of a terminal app that can send a receive files?  Back in my BBS
> days, there was a tiny app called "sz" - or "send zmodem" that I could
> execute on whatever server I was connected to, and my terminal app would
> recognize the transmission and start the transfer.  Any think similar
> for linux?
>
> (you know.. it would be handy to transfer small files from a remote
> server to which you're ssh/telnet-ed to your local machine)

sz/rz, as well as all the related protocols (X-Modem, Y-Modem) are available
for linux, and are part of at least redhat and mandrake.  Secure CRT even
has ZModem over SSH capability, which is way kewl!

>
> Just wondrin',
> -Jud

Dave W