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- From: ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!benn@seismo.CSS.GOV
- Newsgroups: net.sources
- Subject: CompuServe's "B" Protocol source
- Date: 17 Mar 86 22:53:22 GMT
-
- Here are two files of C language source. The first is a generic
- implementation of the protocol, in what they call "Dumb Terminal
- Emulator", in a file called "dte.c". The second is a set of library
- routines for the B Protocol, called bp.c . The second for sure and
- the first possibly are in Lattice C and are machine independent.
-
- Enjoy, and please forward me your comments. I'd be curious as to
- your opinions on
- (1) Is this a worthwhile protocol? Has it got
- anything over Kermit or XMODEM? CompuServe has been using it for
- years now, with some large fraction of their 270,000 subscribers.
- (2) Is this good C? Just in general, is this well written?
- I don't really know C from a hole in the ground, and I want to see
- if this is code I should look at for examples.
- (3) Is there really any need for Yet Another File Transfer
- Protocol [YAFTP] ?
-
- Anyway, here they are.
-
- Thomas Cox ...ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!benn
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