If by BBS you mean "ZModem" then I am all for this feature.
I used to use SecureCRT on Windows which has the ZModem
file transfer feature. That works like a charm and is great
for getting a file to the destination especially in
situations when I'm ssh'ing through several firewalls with
OTP security systems so scp and ftp is a nightmare.
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Can't you just install minicom and run that within iTerm? OS X is after all
Unix-like and comes with all the command line goodies. minicom is
availabel via fink and does all sorts of file upload and download including
zmodem. The reason Windows and previous Mac telnet clients had that
built in is that there was no separate command line utility that did the
zmodem functionality.
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I spent some time using minicom and I don't believe that it
will do what I need.
My situation is that I work from home, but connect into my
corporate network using ssh. Our corporate network is
restrictive; in order to get to the box where I work, I must
ssh through two gateway boxes, one of which requires me to
enter a one time password, the second requires me to enter a
manual password. I can't easily ftp or scp data to that box
because of the one time password (which is by design).
Zmodem transfer works very well in this situation when I use
SecureCRT on Windows. I tell SecureCRT to send data files
via zmodem, and run rz on the far side to receive (or I send
via sz on the far side and SecureCRT automatically receives
and stores the files locally).
It appears that minicom will work effectively over serial
lines, but I don't see a way to get it to control an ssh
session, so I don't see how it can help me in this
situation. If I'm missing some aspect of minicom, please
let me know (and sorry to use an RFE for this purpose). But
if not, please consider adding this support to iTerm. Thanks!
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I installed zssh and lszrz on my box. Had to compile them
from source 'cause they're not in fink yet. I couldn't get
it working, but I can see that given a little time I
probably could sort out all of the issues involved.
I think that this is a workable solution, but it's not a
very thrilling one. Now all my sessions will be iTerm
calling zssh calling ssh which will require me to do a
little manual intervention to launch lszrz. I can
understand if this isn't a high priority for you, but I
think it would be far nicer if iTerm had this functionality
built in so that it would automatically detect an incoming
zmodem transfer and use lszrz itself, directly, behind the
scenes.
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If by BBS you mean "ZModem" then I am all for this feature.
I used to use SecureCRT on Windows which has the ZModem
file transfer feature. That works like a charm and is great
for getting a file to the destination especially in
situations when I'm ssh'ing through several firewalls with
OTP security systems so scp and ftp is a nightmare.
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Can't you just install minicom and run that within iTerm? OS X is after all
Unix-like and comes with all the command line goodies. minicom is
availabel via fink and does all sorts of file upload and download including
zmodem. The reason Windows and previous Mac telnet clients had that
built in is that there was no separate command line utility that did the
zmodem functionality.
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Closing until someone convinces me why this can't be done via minicom
running within iTerm.
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I spent some time using minicom and I don't believe that it
will do what I need.
My situation is that I work from home, but connect into my
corporate network using ssh. Our corporate network is
restrictive; in order to get to the box where I work, I must
ssh through two gateway boxes, one of which requires me to
enter a one time password, the second requires me to enter a
manual password. I can't easily ftp or scp data to that box
because of the one time password (which is by design).
Zmodem transfer works very well in this situation when I use
SecureCRT on Windows. I tell SecureCRT to send data files
via zmodem, and run rz on the far side to receive (or I send
via sz on the far side and SecureCRT automatically receives
and stores the files locally).
It appears that minicom will work effectively over serial
lines, but I don't see a way to get it to control an ssh
session, so I don't see how it can help me in this
situation. If I'm missing some aspect of minicom, please
let me know (and sorry to use an RFE for this purpose). But
if not, please consider adding this support to iTerm. Thanks!
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A quick search on Google retrieved this:
http://zssh.sourceforge.net/
Sounds like what you want to do?
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I installed zssh and lszrz on my box. Had to compile them
from source 'cause they're not in fink yet. I couldn't get
it working, but I can see that given a little time I
probably could sort out all of the issues involved.
I think that this is a workable solution, but it's not a
very thrilling one. Now all my sessions will be iTerm
calling zssh calling ssh which will require me to do a
little manual intervention to launch lszrz. I can
understand if this isn't a high priority for you, but I
think it would be far nicer if iTerm had this functionality
built in so that it would automatically detect an incoming
zmodem transfer and use lszrz itself, directly, behind the
scenes.
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Ok, I will keep it on the list and see what we can do about it.