zmodem

zmodem

[Bill Martin]

Hello Ada fans and critic(s)!

I'm investigating communication between a SPARCstation and a 68030 board over
a serial line for a Navy project.  Our need for programs communicating between 
two
SPARCstations is now on a back burner.  We've been told that we cannot use sock
ets 
between SPARC and 68030 unless the 68030 board has an operating system that 
uses sockets.  So for now, we cannot use the Ada RPC toolkit or Q (sigh, just w
hen
I was beginning to get excited learning about RPC in Sun's Network Programming
Guide and having fun sending messages between SPARCs!).

I've been told that zmodem is like kermit.  We would like to know if there is z
modem
written in the wonderful language of Ada?  Our intention is to have a compiled 
zmodem
linked to compiled Ada program on a 68030.  This zmodem will furnish the low le
vel
communication to another zmodem accross the serial line on a SPARC.  The SPARC
zmodem will be linked to compiled Ada software on that SPARC.  We want the comm
unication
to be transparant so that the procedures on the SPARC will think they are talki
ng directly
to procedures on the 68030 and vice versa.

Please send me E-mail to my INTERNET address, or post responses to this group.

Forgive me if my questions sound newbie.  The reason is that I AM newbie to Sun
, UNIX and
Ada (since November 1992) and came from a MC68000/MC68020 & VAX VMS background 
- 6 years of it!   I feel like a Brazilian indian visiting New York!  I am besi
de myself, and so
is my twin!  I will quit here before I get too out of hand.

		- thanks in advance,
		   Bill

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Bill Martin
Naval Air Warfare Center
Code 3916(C2916)
China Lake, CA 93555-6001
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