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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Re: Chuck Forsberg's rzsz source code archives
By: Digital Man to All on Sat Oct 18 2025 01:25 pm

Thanks to those that have actively or passively helped, I've started the commit process to GitHub now:

https://github.com/rswindell/rzsz

2 releases commited so far, several more to go:

1986-05-18_1.03_03
1986-06-12_1.04_07
1986-07-18_1.06_08
1986-08-16_1.06_13
1986-09-15_1.08_14
1986-10-23_1.09_17
1986-11-14_1.10_19
1987-01-15_1.14_14
1987-01-25_1.16_25
1987-03-10_1.18_26
1987-05-29_1.21_31
1987-08-21_1.26_35
1987-10-11_1.26_36
1988-03-09_1.29_44
1988-03-29_1.31_44
1988-04-22_2.02_01
1988-04-27_2.02_02
1988-05-09_2.02_10
1988-05-29_2.03_12
1989-04-22_3.00_01
1989-05-09_3.00_03
1989-05-25_3.01_03
1990-02-02_3.02_07
1991-03-20_3.05_11
1991-07-02_3.07_14
1991-09-15_3.10_16
1991-10-04_3.11_16
1991-10-30_3.17_17
1991-12-07_3.17_18
1993-05-05_3.24_23
1993-05-16_3.24_24
1993-06-13_3.25_25
1994-01-27_3.32_32
1994-02-18_3.33_33
1994-02-24_3.34_34
1994-04-23_3.36_36
1994-05-15_3.36_37
1994-06-22_3.38_38
1995-04-21-3.41_40
1996-03-19_3.42_40
1996-09-16_3.44_40
1996-09-16_3.44_43
1998-01-27_3.48_48
2003-01-30_3.73_73
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Re: Chuck Forsberg's rzsz source code archives
By: Digital Man to All on Sat Nov 22 2025 07:20 pm

Re: Chuck Forsberg's rzsz source code archives
By: Digital Man to All on Sat Oct 18 2025 01:25 pm

Thanks to those that have actively or passively helped, I've started the commit process to GitHub now:

https://github.com/rswindell/rzsz

And it's now done. <sigh>
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