19 Sep
2023
19 Sep
'23
8:04 a.m.
On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 07:07:25PM -0400, Dan Cross wrote:
xmodem lives on in a lot of embedded applications because of its
overall simplicity. We used it to bootstrap kernels onto Oxide
computers, for example, while we were doing active development.
Today, KDE's Konsole terminal window has a "ZModem upload" function,
which I've used for sending a file up to some system where the
administrator on the remote machine has disabled scp and sftp for
random security $REASONS.
I could compress the file and use uuencode/uudecode, but for larger
files where cut and paste isn't terribly convenient, using zmodem can
be one of the simpler and more effective.
- Ted