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- Path: sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!xenitec!zswamp!geoff
- From: geoff@zswamp.UUCP (Geoffrey Welsh)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: V.42bis/LAP-M questions
- Message-ID: <F6L5wB15w165w@zswamp.UUCP>
- Date: Sat, 09 Jan 93 15:16:02 EST
- References: <1993Jan5.213939.11393@uts.uni-c.dk>
- Organization: Izot's Swamp
- Lines: 18
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- povlphp@uts.uni-c.dk (Povl H. Pedersen) writes:
-
- > How come that I sometimes have to get retries from Z-modem when
- > using a modem with MNP-5 or V.42bis/LAP-M ? Both include error
- > correction, and I thought that would ensure that all packages
- > would be transfered as sent.
-
- They correct errors that occurr between the modems. They can not correct
- errors that occurr between each modem and its host computer. This is why it
- is usually not advisable to use protocols such as YMODEM-G, which cannot deal
- with such errors.
-
- Geoffrey Welsh, 7 Strath Humber Court, Islington, Ontario, M9A 4C8 Canada
- geoff@zswamp.uucp, [xenitec.on.ca|m2xenix.psg.com]!zswamp!geoff (416)258-8467
- Now I've lost everything, I give to you my soul
- And the meaning of all that I believed before escapes me
- In this world of none, no thing, and no one
- - Genesis, _Afterglow_
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