ZModem protocol

By kkov... on January 17, 2011 19:07 (imported from Google Code)

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Dear developers,

First, I have to tell that I love iTerm2! You guys are doing a really great job.

There's only one way iTerm2 could be even more useful, and at the same time differentiate itself from the similar offerings: ZModem (and optionally XModem, YModem) support.

I'm sure you guys remember the "modem times" when one could type "sz file.txt" (as in Send Zmodem) in a telnet session, and the terminal program instantly asked where to save the file? And imagine if once again, one could start "rz" (as Receive Zmodem) on a remote machine, drop a file onto iTerm2, and the file would be instantly transmitted?

There is no more comfortable way to "just transfer" a file to/from a remote machine. I really miss this. :) "scp user@server:/some/really/deep/directory/and_some_Strage_filename.txt ." just isn't the same (while it has it's place, of course).

Anyways, keep up the good work, guys!

Kristof

Recommended reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZMODEM