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From: ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Norman Goodger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: My White Knight 11.0 update arrived!
Message-ID: <1101@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM>
Date: 16 Nov 89 23:43:48 GMT
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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?


Mike, CI$-B has been replaced with the Quik-B RCMD, which ocf course
is much faster then regular CI$-B. While I don't have my Wk manual
in front of me, I think its mentioned in there somewhere, though perhaps
not where you would like it to be. So CI$-B has not been abandoned, its
been improved and handled differently. 

You can intiate it best by creating a macro key to run it when you have
entered the name for the file on CI$. Another possible way is to create
a user defined menu with a menu item to activate the RCMD.

There are also other RCMD's already being written and posted on GEnie 
in the Freesoft Software libraries. Perhaps your local BBS will pick them
up. Or perhaps will eventually find there way to comp.binaries.mac.




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