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- From: Tony-Preston@cup.portal.com (ANTHONY FRANCIS PRESTON)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: XPR-Bidirectional
- Message-ID: <69603@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 04:59:52 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <523@thunder.LakeheadU.Ca> <80t19hb@rpi.edu>
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- I am just an old country programmer but...
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- Why is BiModem so complex? You send a packet while recieving a packet,
- If you have to Ack/Nack, you just have an Ack/Nack packet. Communications
- just becomes send the next packet. It would seem that the Zmodem form
- could be used in both directions. It should be fairly easy to do on the
- Amiga, just use asyncronous I/O and wait on both requests.
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