Zmodem file transfer over telnet

[clund]

I'm not sure if this if this is the right board to ask this question on ... if it's not then please point me to the right place!

I have a machine that needs to do some daily downloads from a government agency and the only option they provide is zmodem file transfers over a telnet connection (I know ...I don't know either why they don't use FTP or something a little more common than Zmodem over telnet).
I really would like to have a command line tool that could do this because I want to script it (right now all I have is some terminal emulator software for Windows and I have to do it all by hand every day).
The only package I have found is ztelnet but it's no longer under development and I can't seem to get it to compile... Does anybody know if there're any telnet clients for linux that can do what I need?
I have also been informed that it should be possible to use a scripting language like Expect and make things work ... but I have close to zero experience with Expect and I have no idea how to switch to lsz / lrz when the transfers start.

Thanks in advance,
Claus

 

[thedaver]

This one screams perl to me, so I googled:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=perl+zmodem+telnet+linux

And found

http://www.hk8.org/old_web/linux/run/apph_01.htm#INDEX-353

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/1998/05/msg00758.html

look up also linux "lrzsz"

It's possible that OpenSSH includes zmodem support in telnet mode?!

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