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- From: ken@sugra.uucp (Kenneth Ng)
- Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives,comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: *** WHAT'S THE BEST COMM PROTOCOL {LONG SUMMARY} ***
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.014221.4192@sugra.uucp>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 01:42:21 GMT
- References: <1hbp47INNon8@agate.berkeley.edu: <1992Dec31.030508.1443@sugra.uucp> <1993Jan2.223125.1@gallua>
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- In article <1993Jan2.223125.1@gallua: CADS_COLE@GALLUA.BITNET (Kevin Cole; Washington DC) writes:
- :Well, Joe's biased. ;-) But, I'll agree with both Joe and Kenneth, having
- :used variatons of Kermit to talk to VAX/VMS, VAX/Ultrix, IBM/CMS, IBM/DOS,
- :Commodore Amiga, Macs, and I think an Atari ST1040. I often hear people say
- :"... but it's slow compared to bla-bla-bla..." I can only respond, "Hey, so
- :far, it always seems to work."
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- To which I respond, "over these types of links, zmodem will take forever,
- because it will not work, unless zmodem has a mode that restricts itself
- to the printable character set". I also prefer zmodem where it will work,
- but I find that in most cases, it won't.
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- --
- Kenneth Ng
- Please reply to ken@eies2.njit.edu for now.
- Apple and AT&T lawsuits: Just say NO!
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