Zssh Anyone?

[Nick Stockton]

Well lftp does tab completion but you would still have to connect to the 
server from another TTY

Nick
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Holmes" <steve at holmesgrown.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 7:25 AM
Subject: Re: Zssh Anyone?


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> The thing I like about using rz/sz to transfer files is you can be in
> a session already and say you find a file you want and you want to use
> tab completion to spell out the whole file name; then you could use sz
> to transfer the file.  Otherwise, you have to create a new ssh session
> and tab completion won't work with scp to the a remote.
>
> You're probably right about zssh not being current.  It looks like the
> latest version is 2003.
>
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 12:08:07PM +0900, Kerry Hoath wrote:
>> Sounds as if the wrapper has not been updated to take advantage of devfs 
>> and
>> how devfs names pseudo terminals.
>> Your ssh is probably using the right naming but zssh is not.
>> Why would you want to do zmodem transfers over an ssh connection? 
>> Wouldn't
>> scp/sftp be more efficient?
>> TCP is allready end-to-end reliable; you shouldn't need to encapsulate 
>> data
>> in zmodem packets unnecessarily?
>>
>> you can turn off the escape character for ssh with -e none (check the
>> manpage) then ssh becomes 8-bit-clean and should work with
>> zmodem/kermit/whatever.
>>
>> Regards, Kerry.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Steve Holmes" <steve at holmesgrown.com>
>> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 11:32 AM
>> Subject: OT: Zssh Anyone?
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>> > Does anyone around here use zssh? it is a 'wrapper' to use ssh so
>> > zmodem file transfers can be done from within an existing ssh
>> > session.  I'm trying to run it on my Slackware 12 system with 2.6.21.5
>> > kernel but I keep getting an error saying, "Out of ptys"; it
>> > apparently can't set up a pty/anything to set up a session.  Normal
>> > ssh sessions work all the time from this machine so I'm at a loss to
>> > know what is going wrong here.
>> >
>> > Anyone have any ideas?
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