RE: [iPAQ] Installing Linux, step 13

On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Dirk van Hennekeler wrote:

> Basically what you are trying to do is the sequence
> of commands in minicom that allow you to transfer a
> file. If you start a transfer quickly you don't end
> up with a lot of NAKs which really slow the transfer
> down.
> If you don't have any NAKs then you are lucky. The siting
> of a NAK means there that the receiver didn't acknowledge
> the packet being sent. May have to do many NAKs before the
> packet makes it.
> > 5. ctrl-a z s <cr> <cr>. What's this do?
> This is just a sequence of key strokes that you should issue
> within minicom to allow you to get to start the transfer.
> I would have expected it to be ctrl-a s <cr> <cr> though since
> it should be basically the same commands that were entered previously
> but using the defaults - hence the double press of the Enter key.
> (I am not able to check the command sequence right now though.)
>
> You shouldn't get a timeout. Check that rz is installed. minicom uses
> it. 'rz --version' should tell you if it is.
>
> Regards,
> Dirk

Well, I tried and it still didn't work. As a solution I switched over to
Winterm and after that everything went fine.

 -A
Received on Mon Oct 16 02:06:38 2000