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- Questions and answers on MobyTurbo(Tm)
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- Q: Does MobyTurbo disable or reduce error correction?
- A: MobyTurbo does not disable or reduce ZMODEM's error correction
- capability. MobyTurbo uses 32 bit CRC and the same ZMODEM logic as
- regular ZMODEM transfers.
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- Q: What problems might occur if it incorrectly identifies a suitable path?
- A: If MobyTurbo is used over a path that is not sufficiently transparent,
- the transfer will fail at the same point whenever a particular file
- is attempted. MobyTurbo will work over any path that supports YMODEM-g.
- MobyTurbo will work over any path that supports XMODEM-1k that does not
- suffer from flow control problems.
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- Q: Why is it just for compressed files?
- A: MobyTurbo will transfer any type of file. Moby Turbo is a performance
- enhancement added in response to feedback about YMODEM-g being faster on
- compressed files than ZMODEM. MobyTurbo is optimized for that. Other
- types of files may transfer faster with ZMODEM compression depending on
- their data patterns.
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- As for the word MOBY: (from JARGON.TXT)
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- MOBY [seems to have been in use among model railroad fans years ago.
- Entered the world of AI with the Fabritek 256K moby memory of
- MIT-AI. Derived from Melville's "Moby Dick" (some say from "Moby
- Pickle").] 1. adj. Large, immense, or complex. "A moby frob." 2.
- n. The maximum address space of a machine, hence 3. n. 256K words,
- the size of a PDP-10 moby. (The maximum address space means the
- maximum normally addressable space, as opposed to the amount of
- physical memory a machine can have. Thus the MIT PDP-10s each have
- two mobies, usually referred to as the "low moby" (0-777777) and
- "high moby" (1000000-1777777), or as "moby 0" and "moby 1". MIT-AI
- has four mobies of address space: moby 2 is the PDP-6 memory, and
- moby 3 the PDP-11 interface.) In this sense "moby" is often used
- as a generic unit of either address space (18. bits' worth) or of
- memory (about a megabyte, or 9/8 megabyte (if one accounts for
- difference between 32.- and 36.-bit words), or 5/4 megacharacters).
- 4. A title of address (never of third-person reference), usually
- used to show admiration, respect, and/or friendliness to a
- competent hacker. "So, moby Knight, how's the CONS machine doing?"
- 5. adj. In backgammon, doubles on the dice, as in "moby sixes",
- "moby ones", etc.
- MOBY FOO, MOBY WIN, MOBY LOSS: standard emphatic forms.
- FOBY MOO: a spoonerism due to Greenblatt.
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