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From: jhom@umbio.MIAMI.EDU (Joe Homrighausen)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: zmodem
Message-ID: <1454@umbio.MIAMI.EDU>
Date: 4 Mar 89 02:04:03 GMT
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I don't understand all the fuzz about Zmodem that's been going on lately.
If people are having problems with Chuck Forsberg (and Omen Technology)
making money out of it I think they should re-consider. As far as I'm 
concerned the discussion is irrelevant the subject is getting quite boring.

Chuck Forsberg did a wonderful job on getting around problems that most
other asynchronous protocols have, it works nicely on packet switching
networks (for which it was originally implemented).

I've implemented Zmodem in a product we're selling commercially, as many
other developers has and the fact that it's avaialble on quite a few Unix
systems is nice to see (I'd take Zmodem over Kermit, any day).

The protocol is what I'd call a programmer's dream situation. There's nothing
that prevents anyone from expanding or customizing the protocol to his/her
own needs without breaking existing standards.

Whatever Chuck Forsberg (and Omen Technology) wants to do with it, or 
whatever they (he) are doing with it is up to them.