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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: File Corruption
Date: 26 Apr 1995 14:33:59 GMT
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In article <1995Apr25.210139.48681@cc.usu.edu>,
Joe Doupnik <jrd@cc.usu.edu> wrote:
>In article <1995Apr25.154059.432@lia.com>,
glenn@lia.com (Glenn Herteg) writes:
>> Can someone tell me what the chances are for file corruption in a
>> Kermit transfer? I always use Block Check 3, as I thought this was
>> a near-perfect checksum. But today I had a file corrupted during a
>> transfer, in spite of that. The relevant lines from the fullscreen
>> display at the end of the transfer are:
>
To Joe's comments I will only add that, in my opinion, the chances of
corrupted data slipping through a Cyclic Redundancy Check are
considerably smaller than the chances of a bug in the software. Your
posting shows that you were using the previous release of C-Kermit.
Obviously, it would be better to use the current version, 5A(190).
You did not say which Kermit program was on the other end. Some
commercial and shareware Kermit implementations are known to corrupt
files.
- Frank