NOTE:

Do not use the repository until further notice. It contains work in progress and at least one change i am unhappy with.

Use either http://ohse.de/uwe/testing/lrzsz-0.12.21rc.tar.gz (over 20 years in rc state, so it's good enough), or 0.12.20 from https://ohse.de/uwe/software/lrzsz.html (do not expect me to update that old site ever again).

Future plans:

• remove all traces of K&R C

• kill many #if(def)

• remove everything unused. -- gettext (no translations in 20 years, and the po dir is a mess) -- lrzszbug

• rewrite the mess, maybe in go.

• add the protocol debugger, if i find it again (it may have been lost in time).

• switch from alarm() to select.

• cleanup the test suite

• do something about the getopt mess (gnulib wants 7 files...)

• is the usage of vasprintf really needed?

• go through the logging and assign severities following some rule. it wasn't good before the cleanup started, but now the severities are noticable bad.

• split the sender in three programs.

• protocol extensions? ---- higher resolution timestamps (if i keep me release cycle, then y2038 will come before the next major release). ---- large file support (no, i don't want to send whole disks with zmodem, but maybe some videos).

lrzsz is a X/Y/ZModem package built from the public-domain version of Chuck Forsberg´s rzsz package. This package contains NO code from later releases of rzsz which would preclude it from being released under the GPL. It has been heavily modified by me and others.

Please note that credit should be given to Chuck Forsberg (rzsz) and Stephen Satchell/Satchell Evaluations (crc routines) for this package. Any later modifications were minor and merely introduced to increase performance, reliability or compatability.

There is a mailing list for lrzsz: uwe-lrzsz@bulkmail.ohse.de. To subscribe send a mail to uwe-lrzsz-subscribe@bulkmail.ohse.de.

I prefer to get bug reports sent using the lrzszbug' shell script which you can find in thesrc' subdirectory (this script is not installed together with the programs because i don't expect many bug reports). Nethertheless you can still send bug reports to bugs@bulkmail.ohse.de as normal electronic mails. Bugs received at this address may be forwarded to the mailing list.

Please read:

• INSTALL for installation instructions
• NEWS for a list of major changes between the releases
• ChangeLog for the list of minor changes.
• AUTHORS and THANKS to see whom to thank for this package.
• README.cvs for informations about CVS access to the lrzsz sources.
• README.tests for information about how to do a self test
• README.systems for a list of systems lrzsz has been compiled and passed a simple self test under.

Uwe Ohse