Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!xenitec!geoffw
From: geoffw@xenitec.on.ca (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Desterm <was Re: Need help d/l w/Xmodem>
Summary: There's no real standard for "multi-Punter" transfers
Keywords: Xmodem, Punter
Message-ID: <1990Jul15.143655.16453@xenitec.on.ca>
Date: 15 Jul 90 14:36:55 GMT
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In article <206@shiloh.UUCP> cstewart@shiloh.UUCP (Chris Stewart) writes:
>I would like to point out, in the documentation for Desterm that the
>punter problem is mentioned. He had the specs for a newer version of
>punter that I have never run across. It generally will work in single
>transfer mode, but not multi-transfer mode.

   I think I should clarify this. The Punter protocols (PTP and C1,
known as 'old' and 'new Punter' protocols, respectively) are clearly
defined and DesTerm uses some of the code that Steve Punter released
into the public domain for its C1 implementation.

   There are, as far as we have been able to find, THREE patches to
the C1 code that were designed to allow batch transfers. These were
never very well documented, and DesTerm 1.02 only supports the most
recent of the three (the only robust version). DesTerm 2.0 should
work with the second version of "multi-Punter" transfers.

   Please keep in mind that these batch alterations were not designed
by Steve Punter!

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