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- El Paso, TX 12-03-82
-
- Not even two weeks have passed and LMODEM gets "worked on"...
- Nothing against that at all, BUT....
-
- (This is my opinion on the subject, yours will probably differ)
-
- 1. I think the discovering and fixing of bugs in the early stage of
- this utility should definitely be of a high priority. Trivial
- changes should be made at a later stage, when it is known the
- program will perform as desired under all possible circumstances.
-
- 2. Anyone making changes and running DIF on the two files should
- always use the latest original distribution file, which must
- not have been modified in any way. I have just received a DIF
- file which SSED is unable to process. The original file will
- always be named LMODEMxx.AQM and will unsqueeze to LMxx.ASM.
-
- 3. I will not keep any "old" LMODEM files with the exception of
- version 1.0. If in doubt about the validity of a LMxx.ASM file,
- use 1.0 to make the DIF file.
-
- 4. Since updates, whether trivial or not, will within a short time
- be of a frequency similar to MODEM or XMODEM, I will not send
- out any AQM files. The file LMODEMxx.AQM (latest version is 13)
- will always be on the El Paso RCPM (915) 598-1668.
-
- 5. I believe LMODEM is fairly bug free and unless I see a serious
- bug I will not update it.
-
- 6. Since this program is fully in public domain, feel free to do to
- it whatever you think is necessary. When making major modifications
- to the file, please be sure not to remove the credit line, especially
- in regards to the writer of the original XMODEM program, since
- LMODEM is directly derived from XMODEM. Regardless of updates I
- personally consider only the file on my RCPM to be the latest
- valid file, so please let me have your contributions. Note that
- if for whatever reason SSED fails when I use it, I will manually
- key in the changes if at all possible, thus changing the CRC of
- the new version.
-
- 7. Good hacking!
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