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Subject: Other protocols based on kermit?
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Date: Sat, 27-Jun-87 22:32:00 EDT
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The following is "echoing" around the World on Fidonet...

Date: 21 Jun 87 21:46:00
From: Chris Gaal
      THE SMORGAS-BOARD  Monroeville, PA 412-733-3010 (129/32)
Subj: FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOLS

Late at nite, I was talking with a friend, Roger Agrawala of 129/30, and he
gave me inspiration while I came up with and typed in this.....

Based on the existing KERMIT protocol, we have developped a whole line of
MUPPET protocols!!!!

        Fozzie Protocol
        ACK=wACKa wACKa wACKa!
        EOT=End of tomatoes
        NAK=A funny thing happened today when. . .

        The Count Protocol
        NAK=Count the number of blocks in the file
        ACK=(block # said enthusiatically)
        EOT=(last block number, 1 second pause,
        block number IN filename, hahaha [diablocical laughter])

        The Dr. Honedeydue and Beaker Protocol
        NAK=Watch my assistant Beaker perform this file transfer
        ACK=Bee-dee bee-dee bee-dee-bee-bee
        EOT=(smoke coming out of modem) bee-dee-bee-be-be-be-be-be

        The Piggy Protocol
                * Note, this is a "front-end" designed to act as a lead-in to
                the already existing Kermit protocol
        NAK=Oh, Kermit!

There are so many of these protocols running around, like XMODEM, YMODEM,
ZMODEM, XMODEM BATCH, YMODEM BATCH, ZMODEM BATCH, KERMITT,
SEALINK, WINDOWED XMODEM, TELINK, COMPUSERVE B, MODEM 7, and many, many
more, we decided to come up with a few of our own!

TV Show Protocols:

        The Star Trek Protocol
        NAK=Space. The final frontier for man.
        ACK=Highly illogical data block!
        EOT=Beam us up!

        The Monty Python Protocol
        NAK=And now for something completely different. . .
        ACK=It's!
        EOT=Oh, my brain hurts!!!

The Ficticious character protocols:

        The Church Police Protocol
        SendNAK=Are you the Church Police
        RecvNAK=Hoooohhh, yes!
        ACK=One dead, unjugged, rabbit fish later
        SendEOT=The society's to blame!
        RecvEOT=Right! We'll arrest them instead!

        The Bob and Doug Mackensie protocol
        NAK=Good day, eh?
        ACK=More beer, doughnuts, and backbacon sandwiches, eh?
        EOT=Take off, you hoser!

        The Archie Bunker Protocol
        NAK=Get out of the chair, Meathead
        ACK=Awww, sheeze, Edith!
        EOT=Stifle yourself, ding-bat!

The Hitchhiker protocols:

        The Marvin the Paranoid Android Protocol
        NAK=I'll have you know I'm feeling terribly depressed today.
        ACK=Another door!
        EOT=Life. Don't talk to me about life!

        The Zaphod Protocol
        NAK=That's such a nice file, I might steal it!
        ACK=Err, next block.
        EOT=Wow.