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- Although some comm programs are just ┌───────────────────────────────┐
- now beginning to break the trend, most │ │
- currently have just the standard │ Joe Blow's Comm Program │
- protocols built into them, such as │ │
- Xmodem, Ymodem and most likely a few │ <────┐
- others. With the emergence of various │ │ │
- new protocols, the comm program authors │ │ │
- needed to provide a way of executing │ │ SHELLS to DOS and │ │
- these new protocols without incorpo- │ │ executes batch file... │ │
- rating them into the code, which would └───│───────────────────────────┘ │
- increase its size unacceptably. To do │ │
- this, the authors provide a means to \ / │
- exit to DOS (while remaining resident ┌───────────────────────────────┐ │
- and connected to the BBS) and execute │ Zmodem batch file containing │ │
- the transfer protocol externally. (Thus │ command and parameters to │ │
- the name "external protocol"). After │ execute Zmodem (DSZ.COM) │ │
- transfer is complete, control is └───│───────────────────────────┘ │
- returned to the comm program and your │ │
- session continues as usual. └─────────────────────────────┘
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