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  • Chuck Forsberg's rzsz source code archives

    From Digital Man@VERT to All on Wed Oct 1 17:16:17 2025
    I'm planning a project to recreate the history of Chuck's rz and sz programs (which includes minirb, etc.) on github.

    The original X/Y/ZMODEM for UNIX implementation archives were released by Chuck as either rzsz.arc (aka RZSZ.ARC, RZSZ.ZOO) or posted (e.g. to USENET) in SHAR format.

    I'm aware of collections such as https://github.com/UweOhse/xyz-modem-archive, but if you have or can find any early (e.g. < 1988) releases from Chuck of RZ/SZ for UNIX, please send me links or upload to Vertrauen!

    Thank you,
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Digital Man on Wed Oct 1 22:17:17 2025
    Re: Chuck Forsberg's rzsz source code archives
    By: Digital Man to All on Wed Oct 01 2025 05:16 pm

    The original X/Y/ZMODEM for UNIX implementation archives were
    released by Chuck as either rzsz.arc (aka RZSZ.ARC, RZSZ.ZOO)
    or posted (e.g. to USENET) in SHAR format.


    I'm aware of collections such as https://github.com/UweOhse/xyz-modem-archive, but if you have or can
    find any early (e.g. < 1988) releases from Chuck of RZ/SZ for UNIX,
    please send me links or upload to Vertrauen!

    so it's probably RZSZ.*
    man this guy could have done a better job naming his archives.

    i just have the 88 version and the fossil rzsztp archive dated 05-20-88
    this fossil one has a unix .pas file
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  • From Digital Man@VERT to MRO on Thu Oct 2 02:00:31 2025
    Re: Chuck Forsberg's rzsz source code archives
    By: MRO to Digital Man on Wed Oct 01 2025 10:17 pm

    so it's probably RZSZ.*

    Yup and the newest one is CRZSZ*.*.

    man this guy could have done a better job naming his archives.

    Yup. If he were still around, he'd likely agree.

    i just have the 88 version and the fossil rzsztp archive dated 05-20-88
    this fossil one has a unix .pas file

    Thanks, but I'm only interested in the C sources (e.g. sz.c, rz.c). Still, hang on to that archive, it might be valuable some day! :-)
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  • From Digital Man@VERT to All on Thu Oct 2 02:13:27 2025
    Re: Chuck Forsberg's rzsz source code archives
    By: Digital Man to All on Wed Oct 01 2025 05:16 pm

    Who ever uploaded rzsz-06-05-86.tar to Vertrauen - thank you very much! I think that's the olded version of Chuck's C source I've seen so far.

    Do you happen to have any README, MAKEFILE or any other doc/text files that might've accompanied those source files?
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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Digital Man on Thu Oct 2 08:48:37 2025
    Re: Chuck Forsberg's rzsz source code archives
    By: Digital Man to All on Thu Oct 02 2025 02:13 am

    Who ever uploaded rzsz-06-05-86.tar to Vertrauen - thank you very much! I think that's the olded version of Chuck's C source I've seen so far.

    Do you happen to have any README, MAKEFILE or any other doc/text files that might've accompanied those source files?

    I wasn't the one who uploaded that, but I found this zmodem.txt online:

    https://gallium.inria.fr/~doligez/zmodem/zmodem.txt

    Nightfox

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Digital Man on Thu Oct 2 08:50:22 2025
    Re: Chuck Forsberg's rzsz source code archives
    By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Thu Oct 02 2025 08:48 am

    I wasn't the one who uploaded that, but I found this zmodem.txt online:

    https://gallium.inria.fr/~doligez/zmodem/zmodem.txt

    And I just noticed the address for Omen Technology near the top of that is in Portland, Oregon.. They were in my area. :)

    Nightfox

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  • From nelgin@VERT/EOTLBBS to Digital Man on Thu Oct 2 11:01:37 2025
    Re: Chuck Forsberg's rzsz source code archives
    By: Digital Man to All on Thu Oct 02 2025 02:13:27

    Who ever uploaded rzsz-06-05-86.tar to Vertrauen - thank you very much! I think that's the olded version of Chuck's C source I've seen so far.

    That was me.

    Do you happen to have any README, MAKEFILE or any other doc/text files that might've accompanied those source files?

    That's all that was in the file. It came as a zip file that turned out to be a .TRZ file

    RZSZ.TRZ: compress'd data 12 bits

    I used uncompress -b12 -c RZSZ.TRZ > rzsz.tar

    That's pretty much what I uploaded. No additional files I'm afraid.

    I just uploaded one from 1987 also.

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