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From: phaedrus@blake.acs.washington.edu (the Wanderer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: My White Knight 11.0 update arrived!
Message-ID: <4470@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 16 Nov 89 00:55:49 GMT
References: <5916@shlump.nac.dec.com> <780079@hpvcfs1.HP.COM>
Reply-To: phaedrus@blake.acs.washington.edu (the Wanderer)
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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In article <780079@hpvcfs1.HP.COM> mikek@hpvcfs1.HP.COM (Mike Kirkpatrick) writes:
>
>Compuserve B file transfer protocol just dropped off the face of the earth.
>There was absolutely NO mention of it in the manual. Scott, when you make 
>such significant changes from one rev to another, don't you think it at least
>deserves a mention in the manual. There should be a chapter way up front in
>the manual devoted to major changes from previous rev like this. The example
>dialog with Compuserve you have in the manual uses XMODEM protocol. Is this
>the best choice, and won't this require more user interaction for downloading?
>XMODEM does not send the file name at the beginning of the transfer acording
>to your description of transfer protocols. What is the history of Compuserve B
>and the new derivatives now available on Compuserve? I thought you were the 
>one who invented it. Why abandon it now?
>
     Errr, not quite...  CompuServe B has been removed from the program itself,
but there's an RCMD (documented on p.253) that implements Quick B protocol.
As long as CompuServe offers the faster QuickB now, there doesn't seem to me
to be much point in implementing the original CompuServe B.
     The only restriction I can see is that this would make it difficult or
impossible to use B/Quick B in your own procedures (since the QuickB RCMD is a
procedure itself)... of course, I've never actually used the RCMDs yet myself
(since I've had Internet access, I haven't felt the need for CI$... :) ),
so I could be wrong about this.  (When I actually get a Mac, I imagine I'll
become somewhat more familiar with WK... ;) )


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