I like trivia. :) I helps keep me humble. ;)
It's been so long since I needed to do this crap, it's all completely
rinsed out.
So - the question was prompted by my need to xmodem some crap onto a
bricked cisco switch.
I ended up:
- grabbing and compiling minicom as it seemed it supported xmodem
- immediately working out that it in fact relied on helpers (sx, rx
etc) to work and didn't actually do the xmodem stuff itself
- grabbed lrzsz-0.12.20.tar.gz, compiled and installed that
- failed
- made minor changes to the minicom incantation of it
- failed
- failed some more
- thought that perhaps trying to do stuff at max speed was potentially
a cause of my bucket of fail (was connected at 115200)
- slowed to 57600, fail
- slowed to 9600 - worked. OK - so things are at least OK running at
reading speed.
- ramped up to 38400, which seemed to be the fastest I could get it to
actually run and pass CRC checks
- success. (And way faster than running @ 9600! ;)
Of course, I now realise the whole minicom thing was not required,
however, I used minicom years and years ago, and might just leave it on
my box for nostalgic reasons... heh.
Thanks to all who responded for the thoughts. Was a useful discussion.
10 points to Andre for being the first to answer, and provide the most
useful leads. ;)
Nathan.
On 28/08/2013 3:09 PM, Chris Wells wrote:
You could use Kermit/C-Kermit if you want all that legacy goodness
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Joel W Shea <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> On 27 August 2013 23:20, Nathan <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>> Trivia question... anyone happen to know what protocol tip uses to send
>> files?
>>
>> Ie: when you do a ~> and it starts sending... what protocol is it
using?
>
> As alluded to by Andre's earlier reply, power of 'cat' enhanced serial
> I/O (i.e. 8N1) ... or is this a trick question?
>
> ~Joel
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