Greetings.have
Back in the day, I used to use GSZ for Z and X Modem transfers. I will
GSZ and it's associated files, but when I try to type in the registration number to serialize it, I get the dreaded "Missing file gregdat.$$$ needed to serialize GSZ".
Does anyone have a registerred copy of GSZ? It is abandonware now as Omen Technology no longer exists so I do not believe this would be pirating...
Does anyone have a registerred copy of GSZ? It is abandonware now as Omen Technology no longer exists so I do not believe this would be pirating...
Greetings.
Back in the day, I used to use GSZ for Z and X Modem transfers. I will have GSZ and it's associated files, but when I try to type in the registration number to serialize it, I get the dreaded "Missing file gregdat.$$$ needed to serialize GSZ".
Does anyone have a registerred copy of GSZ? It is abandonware now as Omen Technology no longer exists so I do not believe this would be pirating...
Anyone?
yeah i have the registered gsz. but why would you want to use it when you co use a fossil protocol?
last i looked omen technologies still was up and had a web presence.
Omen Technology still existed recently and might still. It appears that omen.com isn't responding to pings or HTTP requests right now, but it may be offline temporarily. Have you heard/read somewhere that Omen Technology (Chu Forsberg) is actually "gone"?
I don't have a registered GSZ, but I'm curious why you would want to use it in this day and age? GSZ is a DOS program, and thus, it doesn't handle long filenames, etc.. What BBS software are you using? If you're using a fairly modern BBS package (Synchronet, Mystic, etc.), there are more modern options For instance, Synchronet includes SEXYZ, which is a 32-bit application and handles long filenames.
I don't have a registered GSZ, but I'm curious why you would want to
use it in this day and age? GSZ is a DOS program, and thus, it
doesn't handle long filenames, etc.. What BBS software are you using?
If you're using a fairly modern BBS package (Synchronet, Mystic,
etc.), there are more modern options For instance, Synchronet includes
SEXYZ, which is a 32-bit application and handles long filenames.
It is more a nostalgia thing.. I used to use GSZ all the time back in the modem days. Now with Telemate and Dosbox, it would be good to see if it would work. I have doubts though because GSZ looks for a modem handshake whichh Dosbos and Telemate won't have as it uses Telnet.
And besides, I actually PAID for my Telemate back in 1992, so I want to use it :) hahaha.
Re: GSZ by Omen Technology
By: Mro to Jeff Friend on Mon Oct 19 2015 10:09 pm
yeah i have the registered gsz. but why would you want to use it when
you co use a fossil protocol?
last i looked omen technologies still was up and had a web presence.
I love old software. When using Telemate now to connect to my BBS in
Dosbox, it would be good to see GSZ again just for memories sake. Though I doubt it would work in Dosbox as it uses Telnet and GSZ looks for a modem handshake whis is not there under Telnet. It is more a case of to see if it would work...
I do somewhat miss all the file transfer protocols though. I enjoy giving my users options, and in the 90s, I had set up additional transfer protocols on my BBS such as MPT/Puma, BiModem, etc.. And I used GSZ also.
I do somewhat miss all the file transfer protocols though. I enjoy
giving my users options, and in the 90s, I had set up additional
transfer protocols on my BBS such as MPT/Puma, BiModem, etc.. And I
used GSZ also.
Me too. I used to provide/use all of those and HS/Link! Synchronet still has some BiModem specific logic built into it and supports bi-directional file transfers (even for QWK/REP packets), but X/Y/ZMODEM (and thus SEXYZ) doesn't support bi-dir transfers, so that code is really never executed any more. :-(
Re: GSZ by Omen Technology
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Fri Oct 23 2015 16:10:03
I do somewhat miss all the file transfer protocols though. I enjoy
giving my users options, and in the 90s, I had set up additional
transfer protocols on my BBS such as MPT/Puma, BiModem, etc.. And I
used GSZ also.
Me too. I used to provide/use all of those and HS/Link! Synchronet still has some BiModem specific logic built into it and supports bi-directional file transfers (even for QWK/REP packets), but X/Y/ZMODEM (and thus SEXYZ) doesn't support bi-dir transfers, so that code is really never executed any more. :-(
Does that code support (and is it compatible with) the official BiModem protocol, or is it Synchronet's own bi-directional protocol implementation?
It would be cool if SyncTerm had support for bi-directional transfers (perhaps it does and I just haven't noticed).
Synchronet doesn't have any file transfer protocols built-in (other than the traditional TCP/IP protocols, e.g. ftp, http, smtp, etc.). The BiModem support was specifically for the creation of the "drop file" that BiModem (the protocol driver) required (bimodem.pth) and the parsing of its version of the DSZ.LOG. Other than that, there's nothing "BiModem" specific in Synchronet. There is a significant more amount of code for supporting bi-direction transfer protocol drivers in general (not specifically "BiModem"), but there just isn't the need or support today for it like there was in the 90s.
Synchronet doesn't have any file transfer protocols built-in (other than the traditional TCP/IP protocols, e.g. ftp, http, smtp, etc.). The BiModem support was specifically for the creation of the "drop file" that BiModem (the protocol driver) required (bimodem.pth) and the parsing of its version of the DSZ.LOG. Other than that, there's nothing "BiModem" specific in Synchronet. There is a significant more amount of code for supporting bi-direction transfer protocol drivers in general (not specifically "BiModem"), but there just isn't the need or support today for it like there was in the 90s.
Synchronet doesn't have any file transfer protocols built-in (other than the traditional TCP/IP protocols, e.g. ftp, http, smtp, etc.). The BiModem support was specifically for the creation of the "drop file" that BiModem (the protocol driver) required (bimodem.pth) and the parsing of its version of the DSZ.LOG. Other than that, there's nothing "BiModem" specific in Synchronet. There is a significant more amount of code for supporting bi-direction transfer protocol drivers in general (not specifically "BiModem"), but there just isn't the need or support today for it like there was in the 90s.
On a slightly related subject, can Synchronet support file transfers and mirroring based on qwk networking? Can you setup a file qwk network and then have people join your "File-Net" and, then, when people upload files it will distribute them similar to messages in a qwk based network?
Re: GSZ by Omen Technology
By: Jeff Friend to All on Mon Oct 19 2015 08:52 pm
Does anyone have a registerred copy of GSZ? It is abandonware now as Omen Technology no longer exists so I do not believe this would be pirating...
Omen Technology still existed recently and might still. It appears that omen.com isn't responding to pings or HTTP requests right now, but it may be offline temporarily. Have you heard/read somewhere that Omen Technology (Chuck Forsberg) is actually "gone"?
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Re: GSZ by Omen Technolog
By: Digital Man to Jeff Friend on
Unfortunately, I found out over the weekend that Chuck Fosberg (and presum Omen Technology) is actually gone. He died in September of this year. Here his (rather long) obit http://www.anewtradition.com/obituaries/obituary/12060_Charles_Alton_Forsb
If you've ever used YMODEM or ZMODEM, you've used one of Chuck's "inventio
He hasn't really done much BBS/modem related in a long time, but still, he
an important innovator to our community and in the history of computing. :
Unfortunately, I found out over the weekend that Chuck Fosberg (and presumab Omen Technology) is actually gone. He died in September of this year. Here's his (rather long) obit: http://www.anewtradition.com/obituaries/obituary/12060_Charles_Alton_ForsberI read the obituary and lit a candle for Chuck Fosberg.
If you've ever used YMODEM or ZMODEM, you've used one of Chuck's "inventions He hasn't really done much BBS/modem related in a long time, but still, he w an important innovator to our community and in the history of computing. :-(
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