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From: haddock@waltz.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Upload/Download Files between pc and
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Date: Fri, 25-Jan-85 15:24:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 25 15:24:00 1985
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/**** waltz:net.micro.pc / timeb!dwight /  5:53 am  Jan 21, 1985 ****/
...
XMODEM is a superior file transfer protocol in the public domain and
originally written by Ward Christensen. It is more robust than KERMIT,
but I'm a little biased; we also have quite a bit of KERMIT stuff
available that we've received from site okstate; I don't use it
but others here do and they like it.

Both solve your error-detection-and-correction needs.
-- 
		--Dwight Ernest	KA2CNN	\ Usenet:...vax135!timeinc!dwight

Sorry Dwight, but it is this point that I'll hafta disagree with.
Having worked with both I've gotta say the Kermit is the more robust
(and I'm a XMODEM fan).   XMODEM won't go onto just *ANY* machine
especially (no hard facts) IBM mainframes whilest Kermit is up and
running on just 'bout anything under the sun.   As an experiment,
try running XMODEM and Kermit over noise phone lines.   At least with
Kermit you can adjust to use smaller packets thus decreasing the chance
of taking noise hits.   Alas, it all won't go in one pass (on noisy
lines) but I'm sure the percentage of retransmissions (amount of file to
be transfered as opposed to actual numbers of packets/sectors
retransmitted) will be lower with Kermit.

P.S.   I say all this in a friendly manner and not in a flame-thrower
	mode.   Kindly correct me if I've said anything wrong. :-)

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