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- From: Sten M. Drescher <smd@hrt216.brooks.af.mil>
- Subject: Re: *** WHAT'S THE BEST COMM PROTOCOL ***
- In-Reply-To: rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu's message of 22 Dec 92 15: 38:48 GMT
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 19:30:40 GMT
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- On 22 Dec 92 15:38:48 GMT, rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Richard Warner) said:
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- Richard> I think the answer is quite ambiguous. Zmodem is definitely
- Richard> faster and has better error recovery, but kermit, xmodem, and
- Richard> ymodem are more ubiquitous at this time. I find that some
- Richard> sites will allow zmodem, but it is a rare site indeed that
- Richard> does not have kermit.
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- You ought to check out BBSs more often, then. NONE of the 20-30 BBS
- systems I call in the San Antonio area support Kermit, but they almost
- all support ZModem (the only one that doesn't is a games-only bbs).
- Since I only call one mainframe that uses Kermit, from my perspective
- it's a rare site indeed that does have Kermit.
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