Subj : is forking rz/sz portable?
To   : Digital Man
From : candycane
Date : Wed Aug 02 2023 17:08:27

  Re: is forking rz/sz portable?
  By: Digital Man to candycane on Wed Aug 02 2023 01:37 pm

 DM> Re: is forking rz/sz portable?
 DM> By: candycane to All on Wed Aug 02 2023 02:12 pm

 >> I was wondering if forking sz and rz would be considered portable or
 >> not, and whether i could just make it read from the forked stream and
 >> post it 

 DM> [l]sz/rz sends and receives data (X/Y/ZMODEM packets) using stdio. This is
 DM> "portable" on most Unix-like OSes, yes. In fact, this is exactly how
 DM> Synchronet supports x/y/zmodem transfers using stdio protocol drivers
 DM> (like lsz/rz) on Unix-like OSes. On Windows, a protocol driver is expected
 DM> to support socket I/O directly (not via stdio stream) and accept an
 DM> inheritable socket descriptor (e.g. via command-line argument) on which to
 DM> send and receive data. -- 
 DM> digital man (rob)

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Alright, thanks!

candycane

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