Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!chinet!les
From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: New UUCP Protocol (was: Re: Zmodem added to UUCP)
Message-ID: <9809@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 17 Oct 89 20:33:42 GMT
References: <9745@chinet.chi.il.us> <713@lakart.UUCP>
Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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In article <713@lakart.UUCP> dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough) writes:

>No - I agree with Mr. Matthews. Look at communications in general:
>Xmodem, Kermit, Zmodem, Punter Protocol - all do the same basic
>function: get a file from one system to another. But which one you
>use depends on several things [...]

[ ..adding protocols..]
>The advantage of this is that it keeps compatibility: instead of saying:
>
>Ptg
>
>you just say:
>
>PtgXzqsplat
>
>and the master gets to chose.

Likewise it would keep compatibility to say
Ptgn  (where "n" is the new protocol I would like to see)
and if "n" is accepted, then negotiate the block and window
size, flow control and character set independently within
the protocol.  That allows each item to be set optimally without
making an alphabet soup of protocols.  I don't really expect
to see any such thing released from a company that has a vested
interest in our long distance calls, though.

Les Mikesell