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From: paul@frcs.UUCP (Paul Nash)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: New UUCP Protocol (was: Re: Zmodem added to UUCP)
Message-ID: <162@frcs.UUCP>
Date: 13 Oct 89 07:56:55 GMT
References: <1024@faatcrl.UUCP> <710@lakart.UUCP> <1029@faatcrl.UUCP> <688.252e37c2@simpact.com>
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In article <688.252e37c2@simpact.com>, jeh@simpact.com writes:
> One oft-cited deficiency of 'g' is that error correction is go-back-n
> rather than selective retransmit; in other words, the receiver windowsize

One advantage of `ZMODEM' in particular, that everyone seems to have
overlooked, is the ability to use `recover' mode. If you have ever
had a phone line (or modem) die on you near the end of a news feed
(or better still, big source code transfer), you will value the
ability to restart where you left off. This can save megaBucks on
phone bills, aswell as lots and lots of time.

Maybe your phone lines and modems never break, but mine give endless
trouble, to the extent where I use proYAM and Zmodem rather than uucp
for transfers from machines that have `rz/sz'.
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