Novaterm 9.6 User's Guide
This command will bring up a list of Novaterm's protocol drivers.
Selecting one from the list will load the protocol driver into memory.
Novaterm will then use that protocol for file transfers.
How do you choose which protocol to use? Some protocols are better
than others; you want to use the best one possible. However, you are
constrained by the fact that the computer on the other end of the line
must be using the same one. Therefore, you must choose a protocol
that the other computer can also use.
The protocols supported by Novaterm are listed below in order of
performance and convenience.
3.4.3.1 Zmodem
Zmodem is by far the most popular and superior file transfer protocol
used in the on-line world today. Zmodem supports excellent error
checking and batch file transfers (several files at a time). File names
are transferred from the sender to the receiver, so the receiver doesn't
have to ask the user to specify file names. Zmodem transfers in data
blocks of up to 1024 bytes. Zmodem doesn't suffer from the problem
of "file padding" like other protocols (as explained in the section on
Ymodem).
Zmodem also has a nice feature called auto-download, where
Novaterm automatically starts a download when it detects that the
other computer has initiated an upload.
If you were a seasoned user of Novaterm 9.5, you'll remember that
the Zmodem protocol included with that version could receive files,
but not send them. The Zmodem protocol in Novaterm 9.6 can both
send and receive files.
Novaterm's Zmodem also supports crash recovery, which allows you
to resume an interrupted file transfer. If a Zmodem transfer was
aborted early for any reason, you may continue the transfer where it
left off by simply attempting to download the file again. If Novaterm
detects that the file already on the disk - and if the Auto-replace
downloads option is turned off (see 4.4.6) - it notifies the sender to
continue where the file left off. (The only time a crash recovery isn't
possible is when the file was downloaded to the buffer, and other
buffer files have been created since the download. The aborted file
must be the last file listed in the buffer directory for a crash recovery
to be possible.)
Novaterm's Zmodem will operate in "streaming" mode if you are