Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!samsung!umich!vela!m.cs.uiuc.edu!chip!bazyar From: bazyar@chip (Jawaid Bazyar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Bug in ProTerm 2.2? Message-ID: <1991Mar20.170411.10816@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 20 Mar 91 17:04:11 GMT References: <9103201526.AA07284@apple.com> Sender: news@m.cs.uiuc.edu (News Database (admin-Mike Schwager)) Reply-To: bazyar@cs.uiuc.edu (Jawaid Bazyar) Organization: Mutation Testing Facility, University of Illinois Lines: 26 In article <9103201526.AA07284@apple.com> EWNORT@WMVM1.BITNET (Eric) writes: >Jawaid Bazyar, > All telecommunications packages that I know of do attempt to re-send bad >packets. I know that... Part of the _Z_modem specification is the ability to restart an aborted transfer (whether due to power loss, phone line crap, or whatever) at the point it left off. A REAL implementation of Zmodem would have saved the original poster 2.2megabytes of upload. [reiterates possible causes of loss of transfer] >personal computer. In closing, I would like to respond to your comment about a >"REAL modem program" .... We are talking about Apples.... Yes, we are. As far as I'm concerned, there is no decent telecom program for any computer. Every one I've seen sucks rocks in some way or other. Proterm's big problem is the half-assed implementation of the transfer protocols. Not to mention no real GS support. The other contender for the "least intolerable" comm program would be Telix, for the IBM. Although it loses characters at 19,200 baud. All hail TelCom, saviour of the modem world. Coming soon to an FTP site near you. -- Jawaid Bazyar |"I'm sure K&R have never heard of Mike." Senior/Computer Engineering | bazyar@cs.uiuc.edu |"That's okay. I'm sure Mike's never heard of K&R". Apple II Forever! | (discussion about Orca/C)