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Subject: modem  file protocols
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Date: 16 Jun 89 12:13:10 GMT
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 I have what I hope is a simple question. What I would like to know is the
title or author of  a book that gives the information needed to help write
a communications program that can  access files with different protocols.
    I belong to a local BBS and certain files use a protocol that my Hayes
Micromodem does not know and  causes it to go into a death pause. The host
(a thing called an IBM) is waiting for something, but my Smartcom has no
setting for it, so they just sit there and hum at each other. The host
supports X-MODEM and a couple others, but I do not know the format of the
routines necessary. I am not looking for code, mainly some reference
material that my public library and bookstore do not seem to carry, or I
have just overlooked. While there are excelent programs,  both free and at
a cost that do what  is needed,  I find it more interesting writing my own
than ending up as a User of others' code?
   I have written an assembler version to access a full-screen terminal,
but that was for a 300  baud internal on my APPLE II+. What I want to write
is for a Hayes 1200 that interfaces through a Super Serial Card  so that I
can access either full-screen or line-by-line.
  Thank you for any help you can offer.