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ref:zmodem [2020/12/01 22:12] – [Frame Header] Add Frame Info column digital manref:zmodem [2025/09/26 14:13] (current) – [ZMODEM Frame] Mention the Tera Term 0x8D 0x8A oddity digital man
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 ==== ZMODEM Frame ==== ==== ZMODEM Frame ====
-There 2 classes of ZMODEM Frames: +There are 2 classes of ZMODEM Frames: 
-  * Hexadecimal (HEX) frames, contain only US-ASCII characters +  - Hexadecimal (HEX) frames, containing only US-ASCII characters 
-  * Binary (BIN16 or BIN32) frames, contain //almost// all possible 8-bit octet values+  - Binary (BIN16 or BIN32) frames, containing //almost// all possible octet values
  
 === HEX Frame === === HEX Frame ===
   <frame header> [CR] LF [XON]   <frame header> [CR] LF [XON]
  
-HEX frames are terminated with an ASCII linefeed character. Some ZMODEM implementations send the HEX frame terminating linefeed character with the high bit set (0x8A). Also, for some HEX frame types, the frame terminator may be followed by an XON (0x11) character ("transmit on" in so-called "software flow control").+HEX frames are terminated with an ASCII linefeed character. A carriage-return (CR) character may precede the linefeed (LF) character. 
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 +Some ZMODEM implementations send this terminating LF with the high bit set (0x8A, that's ASCII-LF with an even-parity bit set). Some ZMODEM implementations (e.g. Tera Term) inexplicably send **both** CR and LF characters with the parity bit set (i.e. 0x8D 0x8A). 
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 +Also, for some HEX frame types, the frame terminator may be followed by an XON (0x11) character ("transmit on" in so-called "software flow control").
  
 === Binary Frame === === Binary Frame ===
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 The pathname (conventionally, the file name) is sent as a The pathname (conventionally, the file name) is sent as a
 null terminated ASCII string.  null terminated ASCII string. 
-No spaces are included in the pathname. +No spaces are included in the pathname. ((some ZMODEM implementations support path/file names that include spaces))
  
 Filename Considerations Filename Considerations

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