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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.dcom
Subject: "BLAST" datacomm package
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Date: Fri, 26-Jul-85 13:53:11 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 26 13:53:11 1985
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I just received an ad from a company called "Communication Research Group"
(8939 Jefferson Highway, Baton Rouge, LA 70809, (504) 923-0888 or 
1-800-24-BLAST) for a "family of communications software products linking 
over 130 of the most popular computers with a universal transfer utility
which can move any binary or text files 100% error-free", called "BLAST"
(BLocked ASynchronous Transmission). The literature mentions UNIX as a
supported OS, both on mainframes and on micros.

Anybody know anything about this? I never heard of it before, but, then, I'm
often out-of-it... Is it actually one of the PD products we already know of,
like Kermit, but under a different name? (That is just a wild guess so please
don't flame if it is a ludicrous question.)

Anyway, I'm curious, and wondered if someone out there knew more...

Regards,
Will Martin

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