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From: grodberg@kodak.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: uucp vs kermit
Message-ID: <794@kodak.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Apr-87 17:50:19 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  8 17:50:19 1987
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Reply-To: grodberg@kodak.UUCP (jeremy grodberg)
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    While we are on the subject, I think it would be advantageous to include
protocols that allow for the corrent (and future) generations of
error-correcting psuedo-full-duplex high-speed modems.  For example the MNP
class 6 modems include data compression, flow control, and error correction
all for the low price of being essentially half-duplex.  This means that an
efficient protocol would use very simple error-detection/correction schemes
if any, not require and response from the receiver until the end of the 
file transmission, and work in only one direction at a time.
    I am not suggesting that any other communication modes be abandoned, but
am simply pointing out that current protocols such as kermit and uucp actually
are more of a liablility than a help when using these high-tech modems, and
since they are likely to be the wave of the future, it would be good to
add adequate support for them in addition to the others.

-- 
          Jeremy Grodberg

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