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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: DL'ing
Message-ID: <15062@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 3 Feb 91 12:20:15 GMT
References: <7912@plains.NoDak.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <7912@plains.NoDak.edu> swiers@plains.NoDak.edu (Mike Swiers ) writes:
>P.S.  I think all it's doing is "catting" the files...

Aye, and there's the rub.  You don't get any error detection/correction,
which all the download protocols support in one form or another.  Unless
there is some good checksum attached to the catted file, it could get
corrupted by line noise etc.