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- From: behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens)
- Subject: Re: XYZ modems
- References: <3594@bcstec.ca.boeing.com>
- Sender: news@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (USENET Newssystem)
- Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 22:17:59 GMT
- Message-ID: <behrenss.716163479@hphalle6>
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- gregory@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Greg Wright) writes:
-
-
- > I was looking for some brief info on the differences between X,Y and Z-
- >modem transfers. Which one came first, which one uses which error corr-
- >ection, etc.
-
- First Ward/Christensen, derived from that X-Modem, then Y-Modem, then
- Z-Modem by Chuck Forsberg. Also see the docu to these protocols for a
- historical overview.
-
- Ward/Christensen and early X-Modem had checksums, thne nowadays used X-Modem
- does it with CRC-16 (one very close to the CCITT CRC term), Y-Modem also
- (though I don't remember if the term is different), Z-Modem has the option
- of CRC-32 (though I don't believe it's really needed).
-
- > Are there any that support crash recovery besides Z-modem?
-
- X and Y do not. I am not sure about kermit 5.x ... it performs super compared
- to Z-Modem, but I don't know if it can continue transfers. Anyone enlighten
- me on this?
-
- Soenke
- P.S.: Ah yes, Z-Modem got on-the-fly compression and such features in later
- versions, though I don't have a docu to an up-to-date implementation
- (sigh). And Z-Modem has major problems with modern modems that have their
- own buffer (usually about 8k) when errors occur ... it get's confused that
- data is still coming in despite the ZRPOS. Kermit 5.x does not have this
- problem, it retrains much faster than Z-Modem.
-
- Soenke
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