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- What protoclos can I use?
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- C.HOGAN
- What protocols can I use with a C-128 besides Xmodem and New Punter?
- -Chris
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- KEVIN.S
- The protocal involved has little or nothing to do with the hardware you are
- using, but rather which are implemented in the software. Various pieces of
- software for the 64 and 128 have supported Compuserve "B" protocol, Rainbow,
- something called Midwest protocol, & various terminal programs often support
- their own internal file transfer systems, especially those which can double as
- or were designed in conjunction with BBS systems. Why, exactly, do you care?
- XMODEM is a very popular protocol. It is hard to find any major system which
- doesn't support it, & Punter has quite a following amongst the CBM world. Most
- Most folk don't really care about protocls until they need access to a specific
- 1 for some arcane reason; do you need support for a specific 1? KeS
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- DEB [*SysOp*]
- MIDWEST protocol is/was a Commodore only protocl which repdated NEW PUNTER. Its
- main claim to fame was that it worked so much