Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!xenitec!zswamp!root
From: root@zswamp.fidonet.org (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: C64 Z-Modem
Message-ID: <6514.27685D59@zswamp.fidonet.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 90 14:58:06 EST
Organization: Izot's Swamp BBS - Kitchener, Ontario

 >From: treesh@vangogh.helios.nd.edu
 >Message-ID: <1990Dec5.133606.12754@news.nd.edu>

 >I agree, although Z modem would not provide much over all speed 
 >preformance then other protocols, however the other advantages of
 >Z modem should justify its development for the commdore computers.

   Why is it that everyone who says that does so as if they expect someone else 
to do it?

   I have put in a lot of time on high speed serial drivers and CRC generators; 
I did so because I thought it worthwhile. I did not whine in public groups that 
SOMEONE ought to do it because it's probably justifiable.

   If YOU wish to do the ZMODEM port, then you have my most sincere best wishes 
- and any help that I can offer, short of doing it for you.

 >The solution: Xmodem 1K CRC.  Works fast, and works good up to high 
 >baud rates.

   This is preceisely what I've been telling ZMODEM fans; YMODEM isn't ZMODEM, 
but it's damned good anyways and several orders of magnitude simpler.
 
 
 


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