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From: EWNORT@WMVM1.BITNET (Eric)
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Subject: Re: Bug in ProTerm 2.2?
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Date: 20 Mar 91 14:56:25 GMT
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Jawaid Bazyar,
     All telecommunications packages that I know of do attempt to re-send bad
packets.  Unless there is some physical reason that it cannot do a re-send, it
should (and most do) attempt this until they reach a preset limit on the number
of tries.  In any case, ProTerm should (I keep referring to ProTerm in a hypo-
thetical manner because I am not familiar with it) have returned a message to
the effect that it did have trouble sending a specific packet and terminated
its transmission due to this error.  Since Brian did not mention anything about
an error message, (this is an afterthought) I am inclined to believe the
failure was due to a power surge or spike, or (as I mentioned before) a tele-
phone interference of some sort (assuming that he does not have a dedicated
line guaranteed by the telephone company).  You must agree with me, however,
that the file was much too large to be sent via a 2400 bps modem from a
personal computer.  In closing, I would like to respond to your comment about a
"REAL modem program" .... We are talking about Apples....

ERIC....