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From: whitney@think.COM (David Whitney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Ymodem-G (again?!)
Keywords: persistence...
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Date: 13 Sep 88 16:47:15 GMT
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In article <8663@drutx.ATT.COM> dvac@drutx.ATT.COM (Daniel Vachon) writes:
>I know we have a few people on here who have tendencies to write some nice 
>terminal programs (Don and Dave mostly)...  I was wondering if either one of
>you guys was planning on incorporating Ymodem-G, or some other streaming 
>protocol in with your next issue of software...  From the sounds of it, Xmodem
>4K just didn't take off like expected....Is this a totally bogus statement?!

At a friend's suggestion, he said forget the xmodem 4K, as it just
won't compete with a real streaming protocol. He also said to really
try to implement Zmodem, which I'll try to do once I get a good amount
of time. "Why didn't you do it this summer?" you ask. Well, I worked
this summer and my job consisted of programming a Mac II. When I got
home, I just wanted to go to sleep. Then the virus trouble started,
and I never got to the big work on Z-Link. Now classes have started,
so any work I do do will be minimal. So, there *will be* Kermit,
Binary II, and maybe even Zmodem at some time, but don't hold your
breath for too long.


David Whitney, MIT '90                   DISCLAIMER: Nobody knows what I'm up
{out there}!harvard!think!whitney         to. Don't blame them for my actions
whitney@think.com                         nor me for theirs.
^^^^^ will be changing before 1989 is here. Don't depend on it after 1/1/89.