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  • is forking rz/sz portable?

    From candycane@CONCHAOS to All on Wed Aug 2 14:12:38 2023
    hi,
    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

    candycane

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  • From Digital Man to candycane on Wed Aug 2 13:37:16 2023
    Re: is forking rz/sz portable?
    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

    [l]sz/rz sends and receives data (X/Y/ZMODEM packets) using stdio. This is "portable" on most Unix-like OSes, yes. In fact, this is exactly how Synchronet supports x/y/zmodem transfers using stdio protocol drivers (like lsz/rz) on Unix-like OSes. On Windows, a protocol driver is expected to support socket I/O directly (not via stdio stream) and accept an inheritable socket descriptor (e.g. via command-line argument) on which to send and receive data.
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  • From candycane@CONCHAOS to Digital Man on Wed Aug 2 17:08:27 2023
    Re: is forking rz/sz portable?
    By: Digital Man to candycane on Wed Aug 02 2023 01:37 pm

    Re: is forking rz/sz portable?
    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

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

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    Suddenly you were gone from all the lives you left your mark upon
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    Alright, thanks!

    candycane

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